what3v3r Posted July 13, 2005 Posted July 13, 2005 (edited) [...] I will concede that I feel Symantec is the best in terms of definition turn around time and the quality of those definitions. [...]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>i cant agree with that...symantec updates their definitions twice a week, maybe three times but thats it! Other AVs get updates every 3 hours! I once got infected with a Virus i got in an email. i also scanned the email attachement before opening it, but no virus was found... until the next day Edited July 13, 2005 by what3v3r
RogueSpear Posted July 13, 2005 Posted July 13, 2005 i cant agree with that...symantec updates their definitions twice a week, maybe three times but thats it! Other AVs get updates every 3 hours! I once got infected with a Virus i got in an email. i also scanned the email attachement before opening it, but no virus was found... until the next day <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Ya learn something new everyday.. one of the things I love about this place.To the mods: I didn't mean to hijack this thread away from it's intended purpose - installing SAV unattended and preconfigured. Just needed to vent some steam. So with that said I'll keep any further comments on topic.
OrcoXP Posted July 13, 2005 Posted July 13, 2005 (edited) i cant agree with that...symantec updates their definitions twice a week, maybe three times but thats it! Other AVs get updates every 3 hours! I once got infected with a Virus i got in an email. i also scanned the email attachement before opening it, but no virus was found... until the next day <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Hardly!Just set the Live Update check to check more frequently...on a more active day for viruses Symantec will sometimes update once an hour...I have seen the defs get to build 28 in a single day.Every day that my UA goes unfinished I update the VDefHub.zip file at least once per day.Click here and check the date and revision number.However some server must go unaware of the latest build so find some other method of updating virus defs and you're all set! Edited July 13, 2005 by OrcoXP
what3v3r Posted July 13, 2005 Posted July 13, 2005 well i dont know what to say, i believe you but i have set my live update to check once every day, and my defs are only updated once a week...
Rhelic Posted July 13, 2005 Posted July 13, 2005 Symantec is about to launch their new website redesign, perhaps they're waiting for that before they announce their new products too. I mean bundling all kinds of improvements together really helps your stock http://preview.symantec.com/
OrcoXP Posted July 13, 2005 Posted July 13, 2005 well i dont know what to say, i believe you but i have set my live update to check once every day, and my defs are only updated once a week...<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Yeah, when I was using live update I had the same problem...just find a 3rd party method and add it to your task scheduler
what3v3r Posted July 13, 2005 Posted July 13, 2005 well i dont know what to say, i believe you but i have set my live update to check once every day, and my defs are only updated once a week...<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Yeah, when I was using live update I had the same problem...just find a 3rd party method and add it to your task scheduler<{POST_SNAPBACK}>like what for example?
OrcoXP Posted July 13, 2005 Posted July 13, 2005 i had a proggy called defsgetter but it was strictly a script so I am not sure if it is available anywhere...I lost my harddrive and lost defsgetter but there are others out there...all you need to do is search
RogueSpear Posted July 13, 2005 Posted July 13, 2005 I imagine you could make a script to download (ftp) the updates at whatever schedule you like.
what3v3r Posted July 13, 2005 Posted July 13, 2005 (edited) i imagine a batch script using wget, could do the trick - ah well, maybe ill write it myself. thanks for the suggestionedit: seems like i was too slow Edited July 13, 2005 by what3v3r
tbma Posted July 13, 2005 Posted July 13, 2005 Huh??How to automatically update Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition definitions without using LiveUpdate... with the batch files.
OrcoXP Posted July 14, 2005 Posted July 14, 2005 (edited) sweet...that's the one!!! Edited July 14, 2005 by OrcoXP
what3v3r Posted July 14, 2005 Posted July 14, 2005 (edited) this update method is for servers only, if im correct?anyway, i wrote my own update tool for clients. it uses grep, wget, and winrar. it downloads the newest definitions from here:http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcen...ges/US-N95.htmland extracts and applies them. you need to have winrar installed in its default directory (you can also edit the batch file of course). i attached almost all the files you will need to run it. just extract the "update.zip" into any folder, and run "update.cmd".there is one file you will have to download yourself, because it was too big, to attach to this post. get wget here:http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/cgi-bin/fetc...l=wget/wget.exesimply save it into the directory that you extracted update.zip tolet me know if it works for you update.zip Edited July 14, 2005 by what3v3r
sleepnmojo Posted July 14, 2005 Posted July 14, 2005 Just to save you a little bit of time, and shorten your code.WGET.EXE -N -c -q ftp://ftp.symantec.com/AVDEFS/norton_antivirus/static/symcdefsi32.exeREM EXTRACT FILE HEREShould download the latest vdefs. If you don't like wget, ftp works too.ftp.exe -s:%0goto doneopen ftp.symantec.comanonymoussav@msfn.orgbinaryhashcd AVDEFS/norton_antivirus/staticget symcdefsi32.exebye:done@ECHO OFFREM EXTRACT FILE HERE
what3v3r Posted July 14, 2005 Posted July 14, 2005 thanks for the suggested improvements, i didnt know that the definitions were also available on symantecs ftp (i didnt know where)but i guess they both get updated at the same time.
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