Do not McAfee not provide a facility to automatically do
this for you?
I haven't used McAfee but have used various other flavours
(Sophos, Trend, AVG, CA) and find it difficult to believe that this is not
provided as part of the Software?
From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx
Sent: 21 June 2006 13:41
To: Servers Alive Discussion List
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Checking anti-virus updates
What you could do is download the update.ini file from
McAfee
That
contains not only the version number of the dat file (in the [SuperDat-IA32] or
[ZIP] or [SCM] or [Incremental] section under DATVersion) but also a
checksum/filesize/filename for the latest .DAT file (and even a
version/size/checksum for the engine).
Next
step is then to check for the version/size/.... of the file you have on "your"
system and compare both of them.
Looks
like an interesting project....
Ian if
you want an offer on this from Woodstone, then contact me
offlist.
Dirk Bulinckx.
From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 2:31 PM
To: Servers Alive Discussion List
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Checking anti-virus updates
SA as such can't do the download, but you could do this via some external
check. BUT won't take just take a long time? Isn't the version
(date/time) stamp somehow available in an easy format?
Dirk Bulinckx.
From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vogl, Tom
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 2:26 PM
To: Servers Alive Discussion List
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Checking anti-virus updates
Ian,
Can you have SA do a download (FTP?) from McAfee and then do a
binary file compare (FC) of your download vs whatever file you are using
internally?
-Tom
From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 7:32 AM
To: Servers Alive Discussion List
Subject: [SA-list] Checking anti-virus updates
Folks,
Every morning our Service Desk do a manual check to see that our anti-virus infrastructure is up to date. Specifically, they check that the virus definitions file (from McAfee) on the central server is the latest one.
I'd love to automate that check, but I'm not sure how to do it. I can do a check on the timestamp of the file on the server, but I then need to be able to somehow test if that is the latest available file. As the updates come out from McAfee at irregular intervals (anything from a few times a day to a few times a week) doing an "older than x hours" isn't really adequate.
Any ideas? Is anyone else doing this?
Cheers,
Ian
_________________________________
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OEL IS - European Infrastructure Support
Tel: +44 1236 502661
Mob: +44 7881 518854
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