[dba-Tech] AV Updates

Jon Tydda jon at tydda.plus.com
Mon Sep 6 17:42:40 CDT 2004


The memory sticks I've seen have a little (physical) switch on them to make
them read only, which is useful.


Jon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erwin Craps - IT Helps" <Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
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Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 9:40 PM
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] AV Updates


1) Stinger from N.A. does only scan some popular virusses not all!!!

2) There is a downside on using a memory stick...
It can be written, a CD not.
Meaning, in a unfortuanele situation you could propagate the virus by
the memory stick....

Erwin


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 9:16 PM
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-----
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[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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