RE: Symantec Corporate AntiVirus 8.0 - thoughts

["Chris Berry" <compjma () hotmail com>]

> From: Chris Santerre <csanterre () MerchantsOverseas com>
> To: 'Scott Plumlee' <scott () plumlee org>
> I've been using it for a while, and have investigated ways of handling >the 
> updates of workstations. My situation is I don't have time to get
> very fancy. I've got too many things to do, so I need it quick and
> easy. With that said, here is what I do:
> Every Friday, download the update definitions to a public directory and
> uncompress. Run a script that renames standard user login scripts.
> These new login scripts copy the virus update files to the "incoming"
> directory on the clients. HUGE message in notepad opens on clients
> machine to tell them to double click the little NAV icon and check the 
> >date of their definitions. Done.
> Come Tuesday morning I change the scripts back over.
> There was an article on creating your own local liveupdate server. But
> it was more time consuming and still felt like PULL. I wanted to PUSH
> the update like this.
> This is a undocumented way of updating that I stumbled on while
> playing one day. So your mileage may vary.

> > From: Scott Plumlee [mailto:scott () plumlee org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 9:13 AM
> > Anyone have any opinions on this for managing workstation virus
> > checkers?  Doing it by myself and trusting the users to update is
> > getting tedious.  I'm interested in anyone running it on a Novell
> > network especially.

You guys are totally missing the boat, Norton Corporate has PUSH capability 
BUILT-IN, you just have to set up the Live Update Server, and configure the 
Auto-Update, and its completely hands free, updates the server 
automatically, and pushes it out to all the clients.  I've been using it 
here for months, works GREAT!

Chris Berry
compjma () hotmail com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

"And here in our server room you can see our Beowolf Cluster of C64's that 
keeps our enterprise on the very cutting edge of technology."







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