At a client of mine today, who has a robust FSSP environment, similar to the larger one I wrote about in this MSDN article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee412237.aspx
or if you are just interested in the specific image:
http://i.msdn.microsoft.com/Ee412237.792e5c8b-f1b7-4cb4-9b87-5689c44973da(en-us,office.12).gif
was experiencing an abnormal amount of memory utilization on the WFE’s I had built for them. While they wanted a quick fix, it [...]

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I get asked a lot about ForeFront topologies, meaning if you are given a SharePoint farm composed of X number of SharePoint components what machines get what. If you are interested in this, please look at my MSDN article:
Using the Acceleration Toolkit for Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint.
An acceleration toolkit provides a logical bundling [...]

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There are several types of scan jobs that exist within the Forefront for SharePoint framework, each of which may be appropriate for an arbitrary task depending on your requirements. The three scan jobs that exist within Forefront for SharePoint are:

Quick Scan
Manual Scan
Realtime Scan

Quick Scan
The first type of scan job offered is the quick scan. This [...]

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Corporate antivirus SharePoint protection is only as good as your AV vendor builds and how well you assimilate updates to their arbitrary AV scanning engines. For that reason, Forefront for SharePoint has built in mechanisms that will allow you to aggregate and incorporate AV vendors various scan engines into one cohesive unit protecting your SharePoint [...]

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Using the FSSP for SharePoint WebParts
One of the most significant pieces of functionality that can be implemented within a corporate antivirus policy is the display and archiving of virus infected notifications, their origin, and how those files are handled within a communications and collaborations environment. Within the FSSP framework, these events are called “event notifications” [...]

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