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Re: Virus Signature Update on Macintosh


From: Jane DelFavero <jane.delfavero () NYU EDU>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 16:48:26 -0400

Hi Ken,

If you buy a site license of Norton, you can build a custom
distribution which includes a liveupdate.hst file that points the
Macs to a local server.

Jane

Has anyone here found an antivirus solution for MAC's that provides
automatic updating of the signature files for workstations from a server
location?   Norton-AV for example provides "liveupdate", but that
requires connecting to Symantec site to download the signatures to every
client which can be rather burdensome.

Anyone know of a solution that can provide regular updates for MAC
antivirus without that burden?

Ken
CISSP, CISA, CISM, IAM
Information Security Solutions Manager
Omni Tech Corporation, www.omnitechcorp.com
(262) 523-3300 x486

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