SOT: AntiVirus Software

[Dimitri Yioulos]

On Friday 26 January 2007 5:53 pm, Scott Silva wrote:
> Dimitri Yioulos spake the following on 1/26/2007 2:37 PM:
> > 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
>
> I sent it in reply to another thread, but I seem to remember also adding
> something to other.php. Look around this area. The code between f-prot and
> the mysql status.
>
>     <? if(!DISTRIBUTED_SETUP &&
> preg_match('/mcafee/i',get_conf_var('VirusScanners'))): ?>
>      <LI><A HREF="mcafee_status.php">McAfee Status</A>
>     <? endif; ?>
>     <? if(!DISTRIBUTED_SETUP &&
> preg_match('/f-prot/i',get_conf_var('VirusScanners'))): ?>
>      <LI><A HREF="f-prot_status.php">F-Prot Status</A>
>     <? endif; ?>
>     <? if(!DISTRIBUTED_SETUP &&
> preg_match('/bitdefender/i',get_conf_var('VirusScanners'))): ?>
>     <LI><A HREF="bitdefender_status.php">BitDefender Status</A>
>     <? endif; ?>
>     <? if($GLOBALS['user_type'] == 'A'): ?>
>     <LI><A HREF="mysql_status.php">MySQL Database Status</A>
>     <? endif; ?>
>     <? if(!DISTRIBUTED_SETUP && $GLOBALS['user_type'] == 'A'): ?>
>
>
>

Much better.  Thanks!

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