Mike Leone on Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:30:15 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] OSS desktop (windows) anti-virus?


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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