Re: [Declude.Virus] f-prot update script

[Darin Cox]

Yep.  We do the same thing for scheduling updates. Darin.     ----- Original Message ----- From: Matt To: Declude.Virus@declude.com Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 1:16 PM Subject: Re: [Declude.Virus] f-prot update script FYI, my experience with the command line updater in F-Prot has been perfect so far as I can tell.  I think the issue that you are referring to is the program updates that only the GUI handles through the F-Prot Updater which has been known to hang in the past when bandwidth isn't good.  The command line tool can be set up in Windows Scheduler with a reasonable time out which should kill the command if it goes on too long, and it only handles the definitions.  I can see from F-Prot's perspective that supporting scheduled FTP downloads is not good for their bandwidth since most probably don't bother to check to see if there is a newer file before downloading (not necessarily the case here).  I schedule my command line to run at an odd minute, every 60 minutes in order to avoid any common download times and the slowdowns that might accompany them.  I have McAfee update every 60 minutes offset 30 minutes from F-Prot. "C:\Program Files\FSI\F-Prot\FP-Updater\Updater.exe" /HIDDEN /INTERNET Matt   Darin Cox wrote: Hi Andrew, We have monitoring in place to know if any management process fails, so we'll know if this no longer works and we need to change. However, this has worked flawlessly for years, so I see no reason to change to the F-Prot updater that was always iffy at best. Not sure how HTTP updates are any different from a legacy standpoint than FTP, since the F-Prot updater is the officially supported mechanism. In any case, my comment was just that it works fine, and has for years. I'll choose FTP over HTTP anyday if given the choice... Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colbeck, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Declude.Virus@declude.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:50 PM Subject: RE: [Declude.Virus] f-prot update script Darin you're depending on legacy support. I'd suggest that if you want to stick to this method, you work on your backup plan. See the Windows Updater FAQ: http://www.f-prot.com/support/windows/fpwin_faq/fpwin_faq_6.html which lists: http://www.f-prot.com/support/windows/fpwin_faq/30.html Andrew 8) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Darin Cox Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 9:43 AM To: Declude.Virus@declude.com Subject: Re: [Declude.Virus] f-prot update script Huh? What about FTP is not working? We're still FTPing from them. Latest defs are Monday at 10:34am. I just ran the FTP update script manually and it ran fine. Here's what we use open ftp.frisk.is user anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd pub binary hash prompt get fp-def.zip get macrdef2.zip close quit Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colbeck, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Declude.Virus@declude.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:19 PM Subject: RE: [Declude.Virus] f-prot update script Hmmm. Well, I went to the F-Prot website and picked out their link to download the latest signatures. They do not support the FTP method anymore, but: wget -N http://updates.f-prot.com/cgi-bin/get_randomly?fp-def and wget -N http://updates.f-prot.com/cgi-bin/get_randomly?macrdef2 do work very well. Thanks for pointing that out, Bill. It may be worth mentioning that when the GUI scheduler had problems, it would tell me instead of quietly erroring out or retrying, which was why I switched to the method discussed, which was to invoke: http://www.f-prot.com/support/windows/fpwin_faq/88.html from Task Scheduler or AT commands. Since I switched to this method, my downloads have been flawless. I won't be switching to wget with http unless this turns out to be bad. For what it's worth, I've been using 3.16a and now 3.16b ... Andrew 8) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bill Landry Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 8:27 AM To: Declude.Virus@declude.com Subject: Re: [Declude.Virus] f-prot update script My wget script for updating F-Prot has been working just fine for a few years now, and still continues to function properly. Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Cohn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Declude.Virus@declude.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 8:13 AM Subject: RE: [Declude.Virus] f-prot update script This update is the worst method IMO (The one referenced in the link here). I used to update every hour and using this I would find the machine with the updater hung on the screen timed out at least once a week. W2K Server SP4. What OS are you using it on where it does NOT create issues? I started writing a simple updater using 4NT copy /u which copies across anonymous ftp and http links and only copies new files. Perfect but then I read somewhere that fprot has no FTP updates available anymore so I rewrote the one for Mcafee command line instead since I do not have the full version installed on this machine and do not want to install the full version. The script pulls the superdat expands it and then the daily dat. I could not get the wget Mcafee script from the Declude links to work for long either. Wget got corrupted after 2 days saying it was not a valid win32 application. Those links on the Declude site should be removed as that stuff does not work anymore. 4NT from Jpsoft is simply the best tool for the job anyway. That and unzip from infozip and it is done. DC -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Keith Johnson Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 11:21 AM To: Declude.Virus@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.Virus] f-prot update script Daniel, Give this a try: http://www.f-prot.com/support/windows/fpwin_faq/88.html -Keith -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Daniel Ivey Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 11:06 AM To: 'Declude.Virus@declude.com' Subject: RE: [Declude.Virus] f-prot update script I have tried using this script. I keep getting an error referring to wget.exe and it doesn't update F-Prot. Daniel ======================= Daniel Ivey GCR Company / GCR Online Voice: 434 - 570 - 1765 Fax: 434 - 572 - 1981 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Goran Jovanovic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 11:02 AM To: Declude.Virus@declude.com Subject: RE: [Declude.Virus] f-prot update script Take a look at: http://www.declude.com/Articles.asp?ID=100 F-Prot for DOS updater - A batch file that automatically updates F-Prot and its virus definitions (old version here), and a Cygwin version, and a complete .ZIPed version. Finally, a Simple version! Goran Jovanovic The LAN Shoppe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.Virus- [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Daniel Ivey Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 9:52 AM To: 'Declude.Virus@declude.com' Subject: [Declude.Virus] f-prot update script Does anyone have an f-prot update script that they wouldn't mind sharing? I have tried one that I found, but never could get it to work. 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