RE: Symantec Corporate AntiVirus 8.0 - thoughts

From: Chris Berry (compjma@hotmail.com)
Date: 11/08/02 

From: "Chris Berry" <compjma@hotmail.com>
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 11:27:39 -0800

>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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