[dba-Tech] AV Updates

There is only so much you can do, to protect your users.....

Drew

-----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 3:49 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] AV Updates


If they go on the net they'll get updated by LiveUpdate, but if they use
pirated software, infected floppy disks, ......

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka
> Sent: 06 September 2004 20:16
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] AV Updates
> 
> 
> If they weren't on the internet, how would they get a virus?
> 
> If they connect to the internet at home, you can get AV 
> software that lets them update from home.  We use Office Scan 
> by Trend.  It runs on our Intranet.  The Office Scan portion 
> is visible on the internet (not just the Intranet), so when a 
> laptop user is at home, and they log onto the internet, they 
> get AV updates just as if they were at work.
> 
> Drew
> 
> -----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 8:56 AM
> 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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