SOT: AntiVirus Software

[Scott Silva]

Dimitri Yioulos spake the following on 1/26/2007 5:59 AM:
> On Friday 26 January 2007 8:50 am, Glenn Steen wrote:
>> On 26/01/07, Dimitri Yioulos <dyioulos at firstbhph.com> wrote:
>> (snip)
>>
>>> I apologize if I'm taking this post OT, but is anyone using the "free"
>>> BitDefender console version with MS?  I installed it, and ran MS
>>> bitdefender-autoupdate, which seemed to work.  But, it's hard to tell if
>>> the virus signatures were truly updated.  Does anyone know if this is the
>>> case? Also, must bitdefender be "started"?  If so, how?  And, finally,
>>> should bitdefender-autoupdate be run as a cron job, or does MS handle
>>> that?
>> I would say that all of us that use bdc (well, pretty close to all ...
>> at least:-) are using the "free console version".
>> You do not need run the autoupdate script by hand, it will be run (as
>> any _installed_ AVs autoupdate-script... Whether it is used is
>> immaterial, if it's there, MS will update it) by the
>> update_virus_scanners script that the MS install places into cron
>> (well, at least for the RPM install, you might need schedule it by
>> hand on the tarball install, and I imagine the freebsd port to do
>> something appropriate to that:-).
>> So... basically there is _no_ setup needed to get updates.
>> And the update_virus_scanners script/teh autoupdate scripts will log
>> what it does, and possibly what result (update, no update needed etc)
>> to your maillog, and possibly some place else... In the case of
>> ClamAV, there is a file /tmp/ClamAv.update.log (or similar) that you
>> can look at for details, and for bdc there is
>> /var/log/bitdefender_updater.log ... And if you want it at a glance,
>> and use MailWatch there one can look at the Tools page (I don't recall
>> if one had to add the script for this, or if it is part of 1.0.3 ...
>> The answer to that is somewhere in the MailWatch mailing list
>> archives). Hm. Perhaps I should update the bitdefender wiki page with
>> this info... When I get the time:-).
>> Enough?
>>
>> Cheers
>> --
>> -- Glenn
>> email: glenn < dot > steen < at > gmail < dot > com
>> work: glenn < dot > steen < at > ap1 < dot > se
>> --
> 
> More than.  Thanks, Glenn.  All I need to do now is figure out the MaiWatch 
> piece (if anybody knows how to, I'd appreciate it).
> 
If mailwatch doesn't have the bitdefender status page by default, one of us
will send it to you.

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