I use Norton System Centre with Norton AV on the desktops, and the System
Centre (actually a Microsoft Management Console plug-in) is configured to
download the latest updates every morning from the Norton liveupdate site.
Each desktop client is configured with a customised script to download their
updates from an internal FTP site, thereby increasing speed and reducing
external bandwidth.
Any new staff have the Norton Agent pushed to their machines, along with the
options I enforce such as not being able to switch off the Auto-Protect, and
the custom LiveUpdate script.
It works very well and requires no work from me at all after the initial
configuration! Happy to help anyone with a problem, and I found Symantec's
tech support very good as well.
Clive
Clive Lawrence
IT Manager
Wireless Data Services Ltd.
(A member of the Hugh Symons organisation)
Tel: +44 (0) 1202 713704
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: www.wds.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Anil Bhelkar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 9:21 AM
To: Jorge Fernandes; FireWall-1 Mailing List (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [FW1] Liveupdate.symantec.com issues
in our case the system administrator downloads into the intranet server. the
users then download from intranet server and run the exe file on their
desktops instead of a live update.
the other option u can think of is a software distribution. there are
various products in the market.
regards
anil bhelkar
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jorge Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 10:13 PM
Subject: RE: [FW1] Liveupdate.symantec.com issues
>
> We've had the same problem. Our solution was to use the administration
tools
> of the Norton Antivirus to create an internal download folder inside our
> network. Once a week an administrator (with full access) downloads the
virus
> definitions update and all users connect to an internal server to update
> their programs. This solution saves bandwidth because you only have one
> download from the net. As far as I can remember it involves changing a
> couple of DLLs on the clients to redirect liveupdate to the network
instead
> of the Internet.
>
> Regards
> Jorge Fernandes
> CMVM
> Lisbon, Portugal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Ter�a-feira, 20 de Junho de 2000 21:06
> To: FireWall-1 Mailing List (E-mail)
> Subject: [FW1] Liveupdate.symantec.com issues
>
>
>
> I have a network administrator using Norton Corporate Anti-virus. This box
> gets its updates from liveupdate.symantec.com or ftp.symantec.com. If I do
> an nslookup query for these names I see that Symantec is round robining
> these names between ten boxes and four boxes respectively. Since this
update
> service runs on an important server in our network I don't want to give it
> open access through FTP and HTTP to the entire internet, so I opened up
only
> these fourteen boxes. The problem is Symantec will add or change IP's in
> this round robin, then I have to revisit this rule, add the boxes.
Symantec
> has not made this easy for firewall admins.
> Has anyone found a better way of doing this? I have considered putting an
> entry in the host file of the server so that it only tries to access one
box
> for ftp.syamntec.com and one for liveupdate.syamntec.com. Am I missing
> something, is there a better/easier way of doing this?
>
> TIA
> Bryan
>
>
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