Hmmm interestingly, the "unix exemption" seems to have been dropped from 1.1 to 1.2 of DSS document.
Part 5.1 used to include this note:
Note: Systems commonly affected by viruses typically do not include UNIX based operating systems or mainframes.
Consumer grade MacAfee that auto updates is still probably a very poor choice for this application as they should have a test bed in the lab that they beta all changes on before they roll out to thousands of machines that likely need a truck roll if something goes wrong.
You can run McAfee on linux now as well (mostly for scanning email and CIFS shared files, I assume?). PCI DSS and DoD IA controls require it.
Enterprise grade McAfee still sucks, it's just a more manageable suck. Despite that, it still blew up with the bad DAT file - those are the same between product lines.
Part 5.1 used to include this note:
Note: Systems commonly affected by viruses typically do not include UNIX based operating systems or mainframes.
Consumer grade MacAfee that auto updates is still probably a very poor choice for this application as they should have a test bed in the lab that they beta all changes on before they roll out to thousands of machines that likely need a truck roll if something goes wrong.