[Web4lib] Re: Web4lib Digest, Vol 35, Issue 13

[Tim Spindle]

>
> Jan:


    In my experience managing both McAfee & DeepFreeze, McAfee should be
configured to do the autoudpdates during the day so you shouldn't have to be
concerned about it being the most up to date.  Even if the pc is frozen, it
can still run the update with the only issue being that the updates will not
be there after the next reboot.  McAfee doesn't release .dat files each
hour; instead, I think they're issued every couple of days.

DeepFreeze can be configured to unfreeze itself during a specified time in
order to do update.  We had ours set to unfreeze itself at 2 am to do
WindowsUpdate & McAfee updates.  So the 2 scenarios you are faced with are:

1.  either the pcs stay frozen during the day & do the McAfee updates (which
are lost upon reboot)
2. or configure DeepFreeze to unfreeze at some point when the pcs won't be
used & configure McAfee to update then.

Hope this helps.

Tim Spindle
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> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:26:29 -0700
> From: "Jane Frasier" <jfrasier at jefferson.lib.co.us>
> Subject: [Web4lib] McAfee Virusscan
> To: <web4lib at webjunction.org>
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> One of my network people believes that all the computers,
> including the public computers, should run the AutoUpdate to get new
> .dats every hour. We use Deep Freeze, so an upgrade during the day
> wouldn't stick, but at least it would have the correct .dat during the
> session.
>
> Do you think that is a good practice? I am thinking it probably
> is, but I am concerned about the length of time that the update might
> take between each patron session.
>
>
> Jane Frasier
> Software Support Specialist
> Jefferson County (CO) Public Library
>
>