I don't have a 64bit Vista install available to test this on, but at
least on Windows 7 if they are using IE, it will say if it's 64 bit in
the User Agent string. Your download page could check for the User
Agent value and point to the right version.
You could also roll your own installer with NSIS or AutoIt that checks
the architecture and installs the right version.
Example User Agent from Windows 7 RC (note the WOW64 bit):
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0;
SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729;
Media Center PC 6.0)
Michael Grinnell
Senior Information Security Engineer
The American University
AU IT will never ask for your password via e-mail.
Don't share your password with anyone!
On Aug 14, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Jeff Porter wrote:
We need to do the exact same thing, and we are in the same
situation...if I'm not mistaken, in 4.1.6,
the version we were on prior to 4.6.1, users were identified with a
"x64" after their operating system
when authenticated and logged in, now, they are all lumped with
their 32-bit partners.
The best I can come up with is in the text box where you can
communicate instructions/details for
the link distribution requirement is to add a couple lines of HTML
with links to the specific version of
antivirus, but like you said, students may not know what they have
or may not read everything.
Let us know if you figure something else out.
