SOT: AntiVirus Software

[Scott Silva]

Dimitri Yioulos spake the following on 1/26/2007 3:08 PM:
> 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!
> 
Now I want to figure out how to get the f-prot status page working. Before my
30 day trial runs out.

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