Yes, that was the page I used. We no longer use Symantec. NOD32 uses the registry key for definition info. I got the Symantec info from C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec shared\VirusDefs\definfo.dat.
HTH On 6/21/06, Julian Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Where are you checking in the registry for the Symantec A/V info? Are you > using > http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/download.html > as your source page from Symantec? > > J. > > ________________________ > Julian Carr > Manager, Technical Services > Legal & General America > (O) 301-279-4867 > (F) 240-314-2969 > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/21/06 09:31AM >>> > > Hello All, > > I have done this for both symantec and NOD32 anti-virus. BAsically > what I did was on webserver that hosts my SA status pages download the > latest version info. This is done hourly.Both Symantec and NOD32 have > webpages that showed this. Then extract the text strings from the > webpages and save to a file. I used wget,sed and egrep for this. Then > I read the registry key for my workstation that identified the current > version and used sed and egrep to save the text string to a file. This > file was FTPd to the webserver hourly. Since my SA status page is > actually a PHP page, I read the files into variables in the PHP page > and was able to compare them and display UP or DOWN via an image with > PHP. The best I could figure out with SA was to Check the status page > for the UP or Down image. This makes alerting/updating late by one > cycle but that was OK for me. You can see the status page here > http://office.sesslerford.com. > > My coding skills are clearly lacking, but I got what I needed this > way. If there is another (simpler?) way to do this I would be happy to > start over, but this has worked for several years. > > BTW when Symantec NOD32 or whomever changes their web page, this will break. > > -Gerry > > > > On 6/21/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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. > > > -- > Gerry Aquino > > 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. > > > > ________________________________ > N.B. The information contained in this electronic message and any attached > documents is privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure. If you > are not the intended recipient, please note that any review, disclosure, > copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this electronic message or > any attached documents is prohibited. If you received this in error, please > contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. > > -- Gerry Aquino 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.
