Antoher note is that the version on a client machine is stored in teh registry. You could use a combination of the ini file and a regread.
Jason Passow Mississippi Welders Supply [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (507) 494-5178 fax: (507) 454-8104 "If you do everything right, nobody will realize you've done anything at all." Dirk Bulinckx wrote: > What you could do is download the update.ini file from McAfee > http://download.nai.com/products/datfiles/4.x/nai/update.ini > > 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 > _________________________________ > Ian K Gray > OEL IS - European Infrastructure Support > Tel: +44 1236 502661 > Mob: +44 7881 518854 > > To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to > salive@woodstone.nu > If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then > make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual > members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you > removed from the list. > > To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to > salive@woodstone.nu > If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then > make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual > members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you > removed from the list. > > To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to > salive@woodstone.nu > If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then > make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual > members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you > removed from the list. > > To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to > salive@woodstone.nu > If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then > make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual > members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you > removed from the list. To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to salive@woodstone.nu If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you removed from the list.
