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Re: Antivirus Software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Valian)
Wed Dec 5 15:10:46 2001
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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 11:53:23 -0800
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From: Peter Valian <valianp@SOUTHWESTERN.EDU>
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
I believe Mcafee does something like what you need but it spreads the
updates in a peer-to-peer fashion (all users that have the update share
it with those that don't).
I think the catch was you must be running IE (ActiveX)...which was a
deal-breaker for us.
-peter
"King, Michael" wrote:
>
> I guess now is a good time to ask this question as any, since we are in the
> middle of a virus outbreak.
>
> We would like to purchase some kind of antivirus software for our students.
>
> We would like to keep a central server, and push the update out to the
> students from there. (to save bandwidth)
>
> What are other people using, if any. And how did you distribute it to the
> students. The students on our network are as physically separated as we can
> get and do not log into our domain.
>
> We use F-prot for our admin network, but it depends on being able to log
> into the domain.
>
> Michael King
> Telecommunications Support Specialist
> Bridgewater State College
> (508) 531-2528
> (508) 531-4528 Fax
> mking@bridgew.edu
>
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