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well, after much searching, I finally found nonav... to anybody that wants to find it, I'd suggest the following google search term: "NONAV Symantec AntiVirus Uninstall utility" I normally would not post links to software on this board, but as this is only an uninstall tool, I don't think that it should be a problem. Also, anybody with the common sense to do google searches can find it. Thanks to Pesko and everybody else for letting me know it's out there; this will save me tons of time testing!! -joe

not to sidetrack the discussion, because I'd love to see a resolution to the pagefile problem, but I'd love to get a link to "nonav". I didn't know that it even existed until Pesko mentioned it, and it'd obviously make my testing much faster/better... thanks! -joe

hey, don't feel like you're crashing a party at all! for your first post, you nailed it! Using that config util is a MUCH easier and more elegant solution than the registry hack that I came up with.. new blood is always welcome! -joe

ryanvm, check out my post: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...20entry180255 it details how to change settings for default scan options, scheduled scans, and Live Update settings. it's not an elegant .msi integrated solution, but it works. -joe

Mazin, I edited the script so that it'll handle all of it in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Thanks for pointing out the mistake! -joe

This document is for people wishing to silently customize their SAV Corp 9 settings after a silent installation. ** a batch file to make these changes is included at the end; it's also possible to add these changes to your .msi file, using the MaSaI Editor, but I was feeling lazy ** It took a little while to find all of this in the registry, as well as figuring out the settings, but here it is... Many thanks to prathapml, who encouraged me to dig it up! Tweak the settings in the batch file to whatever you need, then run it after SAV is installed... (added _'s to try to space out entries for readability..) There are many options in this key that you can change which will become the new defaults for all virus scans. Here are a few of them detailed: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\INTEL\LANDesk\VirusProtect6\CurrentVersion\Custom Tasks \Default Scan Options] DWords __________My Settings __________ Description ScanForGreyware ______1______Turn this on to scan for "expanded threats" (eg. spyware, adware, etc) ScanProcesses_________1______Scan memory by default FirstGreywareAction_____3______First action to take with greyware, 3=delete 4=log only SecondGreywareAction___4______Second action to take with greyware, 3=delete 4=log only If you wish to customize the default settings of liveupdate like I wanted to, here is the key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\INTEL\LANDesk\VirusProtect6\CurrentVersion\PatternManager \Schedule] DWords ______My Settings______ Description Created ______1093971976______Looks necessary; number of seconds since 01/01/1970 DayOfMonth______1______Day of month to run on, if monthly. DayOfWeek______3______What day to run on; Sun=0 ... Sat=6 (I like wednesday, personally..) Enabled ________1______Enable automatic liveupdates LastStart________0______Necessary; can be 0 MinOfDay_______780______The time to start, counted in minutes since midnight. _______________________(1pm=13hours*60mins=780) MissedEventEnabled___1______Handle missed events RandomizeDayEnabled__0______Enable randomizing the minute of day LU runs on RandomizeDayRange___60______Randomize LU to within x minutes of MinOfDay RandomizeMonthEnabled__0______Both of these look necessary, even if set to 0 RandomizeWeekEnabled__0______Both of these look necessary, even if set to 0 SkipEvent________0______0=Don't skip TimeWindowDaily______4______Handle missed events within x hours TimeWindowMonthly______5______Handle missed events within x days TimeWindowWeekly______3______Handle missed events within x days Type______2______Daily=1, Weekly=2, Monthly=3 If you wish to include a weekly scan by default on new machines, the code is included in the batch file below; I didn't detail all of the settings for it since they're pretty redundant with what I've already documented... Please PM me with any corrections to this post, as I have only been able to test it on my own machines, and I'm not positive that it'll work for everybody yet. Thanks for helping test! -joe Here is my batch file to make the changes detailed above: (NOTE: reg.exe versions before 2.0 do not support the /f flag, instructions to get version 2.0 are here) :: batch by jhb :: THIS SECTION WILL CHANGE THE DEFAULT SETTINGS OF SAV SET KEY="HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\INTEL\LANDesk\VirusProtect6\CurrentVersion\Custom Tasks\Default Scan Options" REG ADD %KEY% /v ScanForGreyware /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v ScanProcesses /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v FirstGreywareAction /d 3 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v SecondGreywareAction /d 4 /t REG_DWORD /f :: THIS SECTION WILL SCHEDULE LIVEUPDATE TO RUN AUTOMATICALLY, WITH THE SETTINGS YOU CHOOSE SET KEY="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\INTEL\LANDesk\VirusProtect6\CurrentVersion\PatternManager\Schedule" REG ADD %KEY% /v Created /d 1093971976 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v DayOfMonth /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v DayOfWeek /d 3 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v Enabled /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v LastStart /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v MinOfDay /d 780 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v MissedEventEnabled /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v RandomizeDayEnabled /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v RandomizeDayRange /d 60 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v RandomizeMonthEnabled /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v RandomizeWeekEnabled /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v SkipEvent /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v TimeWindowDaily /d 4 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v TimeWindowMonthly /d 5 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v TimeWindowWeekly /d 3 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v Type /d 2 /t REG_DWORD /f :: THIS SECTION IS TO ADD A WEEKLY SCAN TO YOUR NEW INSTALLATION SET KEY="HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\INTEL\LANDesk\VirusProtect6\CurrentVersion\Custom Tasks\b18edc0c-652f-4811-a66c-a4c4a7e2303f" REG ADD %KEY% /v FirstMacroAction /d 5 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v SecondMacroAction /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v FirstAction /d 5 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v SecondAction /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v FirstOehAction /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v SecondOehAction /d 3 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v MessageBox /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v FileType /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v HaveExceptionDirs /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v HaveExceptionFiles /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v ExcludedByExtensions /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v ScanWhenIdle /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v ScanWhenNotIdle /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v ThrottleNetWare /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v ScanWhenIdlePriority /d 3 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v ScanWhenNotIdlePriority /d 3 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v ThrottleNetWareTargetLoad /d 40 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v ScanThreadCount /d 2 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v ScanThreadsPerCPU /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v ScanForGreyware /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v ScanProcesses /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v FirstGreywareAction /d 3 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v SecondGreywareAction /d 4 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v ScanAllDrives /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v NeedAccessToNetwork /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v StatusDialogTitle="Symantec AntiVirus - Weekly Scan" REG ADD %KEY% /v DisplayStatusDialog /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /f SET KEY="HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\INTEL\LANDesk\VirusProtect6\CurrentVersion\Custom Tasks\b18edc0c-652f-4811-a66c-a4c4a7e2303f\Directories" REG ADD %KEY% /v C: /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f SET KEY="HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\INTEL\LANDesk\VirusProtect6\CurrentVersion\Custom Tasks\b18edc0c-652f-4811-a66c-a4c4a7e2303f\Files" REG ADD %KEY% /f SET KEY="HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\INTEL\LANDesk\VirusProtect6\CurrentVersion\Custom Tasks\b18edc0c-652f-4811-a66c-a4c4a7e2303f\Schedule" REG ADD %KEY% /v Type /d 2 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v Enabled /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v DayOfWeek /d 4 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v MinOfDay /d 900 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v MissedEventEnabled /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v Created /d 1093978089 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v SkipEvent /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /f REG ADD %KEY% /v LastStart /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /f

thanks everyone for all the great info... I've got my unattended install package pretty much ready to go... a quick question, though.. does anyone know how to force the install to have certain options changed in SAV? for example: - default to scheduling Live Update to run at a different time than Fridays at 8pm (when users have their machines off) - default to scanning for "expanded threats" in every scan - set file system auto-protect to automatically be on, and to turn back on 10 minutes after the end user turns it off (like you can do in a Managed environment) it'd be great to know how to set these options, since having to touch every machine to set options is almost worse than having to install by hand! cheers! -joe

prathapml, thanks for the quick response! I'm numbering my responses to match with yours... 1 - I'm distributing this unattended install for many machines around the world that I've never seen/touched, so they may or may not have AV soft installed already... not an ideal situation, but how often is IT? :-/ 2 - If I'm wanting the users to update off of the Symantec LU server (I don't have a LU server set up in house), can I still pre-configure the client LU options with LU-Admin? 3 - rtfm, I know, I know... I looked at all of the pdf docs on the cd, some useful, some not. I'm assuming that you meant that I should use the packager to put together the client options (such as scanning for expanded threats, etc). If I should be using the packager, where do I get a .pmi file for Sym AV Corp 9? I thought that the packager wasn't usable with 9.... If it wasn't the packager you were talking about, would you mind elaborating some more so that I can figure out how to create a custom .msi file with the options I need... Thanks! (as for Cee-Kay, I appreciate EVERYONE's input, whether it works for me specifically or not, since it gives me ideas that I may not have tried yet. thanks, ck!) -joe

just a couple of quick questions for all of you... - do you have to ask users to uninstall previous versions of Norton/Symantec AV and/or Liveupdate previous to running this? I wouldn't think that this would make sense, since this is meant to be an unattended install, but what happens if Norton Internet Security (with Norton AV) or a previous version of Symantec Corporate AV (or even McAfee!?) are on the end user's system? is there some sort of unattended Norton/Symantec uninstaller? - will this process automatically install with the end user's language, or only english? I have users spread across the globe, and it'd be convenient if this install worked for all of them seamlessly. - is there a way to get scheduled automatic liveupdates to happen at a different default time than "every Friday at 8pm", which is usually when people have their machines turned off? - is there a way to get the "scan for expanded threats" turned ON by default in every scan? Thanks for everyone's hard work to get this together... it's a real time saver! -joe