Anti-Virus Updates - How?

["Ian Bradshaw" <ian () ianbradshaw net>]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone has a plan for deployment of AV updates?

There have been a couple of AV updates that have trashed systems recently
(one from CA and one from McAfee).

Neither of these have affected me (fortunately) but we do have all our
systems set to update to the latest definitions - so guess it will happen at
some point.

The problem is, in a small IT department (4 staff with ~5,000 pcs/laptops
over 10 geographic locations - we don't have much spare time!), what is the
best way to deploy AV updates?

Given the number of updates sent out, it's not feasible to test them all
when they are released.

So, leave auto-update on or hold back and test say once a week and update
then, or what?

Any thoughts? / how do people do it at the moment?

Cheers

I.






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