[dba-Tech] AV Updates

If it's an NT/2k/XP pc, the hard drives will be shared for admin use by
default so you can scan the laptop from another pc by mapping to
\\hostname\c$ etc (the dollar sign makes the sharename a "hidden" share so
you can't browse to it, you HAVE to know it's there to access it).

That's how we do it anyway. Well that and our AV system is McAfee 4.0.3 and
you can download the updates and put them on a memory stick, straight onto
the laptop.


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Lacey [mailto:andy at minstersystems.co.uk]
Sent: 06 September 2004 14:56
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] AV Updates


Another admin question along the 'is this normal' line.

When a laptop has been out and about for a few weeks, and comes back into
the office we won't let it on the network until it has had its virus defs
updated and had a full virus scan. But it can only get on the internet via
the netowrk, so how to get it up-to-date virus defs? What we do is download
them (Symantec, using Intelligent Updater), put them on a CD, and update the
laptop from that. Is this the normal/only/best/c**p way to do this?


--
Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk



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