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Re: [PLUG] OSS desktop (windows) anti-virus?
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It is again and again - every year. $60per machine per year gets
expensive. From what I can tell - you can't get the definitions without
the subscription service.
Mike Leone said:
> W. Chris Shank (chris.shank@acetechgroup.com) had this to say on
> 03/28/03 at 13:56:
>> Does anyone know if there is any good OSS windows anti-virus software
>> taht is pretty good? Or, better yet - does anyone know how to get
>> around norton live-update subscription service so that virus
>> definitions are
>> atuomatically updated without this subscription service? A 1 year
>> subscription comes with the software, after that you have to pay again
>> and again.
>
> It's yearly, isn't it, not really "again and again"?
>
> Anyway, you can (or used to be able to) download the definitions file,
> and manually update (I used to do this, on Windows, and for Netware and
> Exchange).
>
> I suppose you could script something to
> do the download, and run the install manually (you'd have to figure out
> the filename, since it contains the date of the update). Is there a
> Windows wget you could run from the Windows scheduler service?
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