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Re: McAfee EPO Agent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Chase)
Wed Dec 5 18:33:47 2001
Message-ID: <200112052324.SAA06642@postoffice.providence.edu>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 18:24:43 US/EASTERN
Reply-To: Resnet Forum <RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu>
From: Edward Chase <echase@POSTOFFICE.PROVIDENCE.EDU>
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
John,
I hope I don't open myself up to sounding like one big dope
here.
How do you go about mirroring their site?
Do you need to request or inform them?
Thanks.
> Hi Edward,
>
> ftp.nai.com/virusdefs/4.x contains the following files:
>
> *.upd (incremental updates to save bandwidth)
> *.exe (superdat - engine only xxxxeng.exe, and
sdatxxxx.exe engine and
> datfiles)
> *.zip, *.tar (dat file upgrades)
> There are also various other files that make things work
like update.ini,
> delta.ini etc.
>
> We use ePO and VirusScan for our Staff systems, however
we mirror the ftp
> site and then tell our staff systems to update from the
local site to save
> internet bandwidth. If you run your own mirror on an ftp
site, then you can
> also check the ftp logs to see when systems are updating,
or not updating as
> the case may be.
>
> If you have any more questions about ePO or VirusScan, I
am happy to help.
>
> John
>
> John Whyte
> IT Manager
> Colleges' IT Group
> University of Queensland
> T: +61 7 3878 0707
> F: +61 7 3878 0620
> M: 0417 237 043
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Edward Chase
[mailto:echase@POSTOFFICE.PROVIDENCE.EDU]
> > Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2001 1:59 AM
> > To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
> > Subject: OT: McAfee EPO Agent
> >
> >
> > Somewhat off topic...
> >
> > Anybody out there use McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Agent
to
> > automatically
> > update McAfee VirusScan?
> >
> > We use it here for faculty/staff machines, not student
> > machines that's why
> > it somewhat off topic.
> >
> > I've written a script that goes off to ftp.nai.com and
grabs
> > the latest
> > dat-<version number>.zip file. The EPO Agents are
> > successfully updating
> > the workstations from our local ftp server.
> >
> > Right now I'm trying to figure out where Network
Associates
> > keeps their
> > latest virus engines. I'd like to pull those down too
and have our
> > workstations update from our local ftp server.
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