Great, Wayne, thanx. I will study on this tonight. I'm not entirely sure I
want to get into a control struggle with McAfee at this point, but I am
glad to know how to do it should the need arise. The reason I tolerate all
the teasing on this list (you know who you are) is because occasionally I
actually learn something, heh heh heh.
At 09:46 AM 2006-05-28, you wrote:
At 07:15 AM 5/28/2006, Eve Golden typed:
So, like, teach me how to use a script, OK??
Except that I know that McAfee hates scripts. I've got one script built
into Word that is the joy of my life. I can send a shortcut of any open
file to the desktop with one click. And guess who shows up every single
time and complains that a script is running??? That's right. And does it
give you any clue about how you can tell it that this particular script
is OK? Nooooooooo....
My problem with McAfee is the same one I have with Microsoft, except that
Microsoft gives you ways around it. They dumb things down, they try to
save you from yourself, and you lose more and more control over what's
going on. At least Microsoft lets you turn it off. And they dumb things
down in the wrong way. They don't make things clear, they obscure them. Feh.
Just because one can't find it doesn't mean it doesn't exist & if they
made it too easy then everyone would want one & they would find other
things to complain about. <LOL> I only partially pulling your leg.
I don't know what version of McAfee that you're using but I do know that
you can turn off macro &/or script checking but that also means you have
to be extra careful when launching them from an email. That's the problem
is that they make these apps for all the idiots out there that launch
everything that comes in via email.
I'm still running version 4.5.1 which use the same dat files that you use.
In my VirusScan Console under Configure, SystemScan instead of accepting
the default files I have selected "User specified files" clicking the
"Extensions..." button to the right. Up pops a window that lets you add,
delete or go back to default extensions. In your case I would delete the
extension of your macro or you probably could save the macro to your
normal.dot file from within Word & McAfee would probably shut up then as
well. Your McAfee GUI is different but the keywords should be relatively
close to what I have here.
As far as the script I use to update it's just a file with a CMD
extension. I'll give you an abbreviated version as I copy & run the sdat
file all over my LAN & you don't need that stuff. I have several of this
kind of scripts that update things such as ad aware etc on systems all
around the LAN.
========== begin copying ============
:: mcafee update.cmd
@echo on
del sdat*.exe
del SuperDAT.log
wget "ftp://ftp.mcafee.com/pub/antivirus/superdat/intel/sdat*.exe";
ren sdat*.* sdat.exe
start sdat.exe
========== end copying ==============
paste into your favorite text editor & save out "mcafee update.cmd" then
run it. Please note that it deletes the old sdat prior to downloading a
new one.
OBTW you'll need to acquire "wget" at
<http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.10.1.tar.gz> & you can find out
more about "wget" at <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>.
Even if you don't use the "mcafee update.cmd" that I have above I'm sure
you'll find "wget" useful for downloading from www or ftp sites from the
command line also in batch or script files.
Once you have the script file running the way that you want you can just
added it to the Scheduler at whatever interval you like.
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