SOT: AntiVirus Software

[Dimitri Yioulos]

On Friday 26 January 2007 5:07 pm, Scott Silva wrote:
> 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.
>
> We are a full service list... most of the time  ;-D
>
>

Scott,

I'll take you up on the offer.  Btw, I do all my shopping here :-)  .

Dimitri

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