[dba-Tech] AV Updates

Erwin Craps - IT Helps Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be
Mon Sep 6 09:50:12 CDT 2004


1) A memory stick could be easier....

2) A wireless network that only connects to the internet and 1 Wifi PC
card to put in the notebook... 


3) Why is that a problem at all? If all your computers and servers
update daily (or in my case hourly). If the notebook tries to infect the
other computers or servers the scanners will detect this....


Erwin
 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Andy Lacey
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 3:56 PM
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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