I think the webpage/textfile/database would be useful for a lot of reasons beyond SA. I did a quick search and didn't find any existing list that maintains the current version numbers for AV software.
-Kevin Dirk Bulinckx wrote: > Others are seeing this as something usefull? > > > Dirk Bulinckx. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Michael Shook > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 22, 2006 2:46 PM > *To:* Servers Alive Discussion List > *Subject:* RE: [SA-list] AV Check > > Well, with such a list the you could tell folks just how out of date > their version of AV is, as Ian would like. > > I'd have to agree, as having a version that is 1 or days out of date > isn't really something I want to woken up at 3am over. > > So, this way you can give the users some parameters (How old, x number > of version old, etc...) > > You could even use this to send a non-down email that a new version > became available 5 minutes ago, without incurring a DOWN penalty that > might be set if the version is 5 days old. > > Michael D. Shook > Technical Analyst > Saddle Creek Corporation > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 863 668 4477 (work) > 863 860 4070 (cell) > 863 665 1261 (fax) > _www.saddlecrk.com_ <http://www.saddlecrk.com/> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Dirk Bulinckx > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 22, 2006 8:31 AM > *To:* Servers Alive Discussion List > *Subject:* RE: [SA-list] AV Check > > Can you elaborate? > What would be the purpose of such a list? > > > Dirk Bulinckx. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Michael Shook > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 22, 2006 2:11 PM > *To:* Servers Alive Discussion List > *Subject:* RE: [SA-list] AV Check > > I'm gonna go WAY out on a limb here.... > > But if Woodstone (or another party) were to keep a publicly available > cache file of all the versions and the dates they first appeared, then > the check could reference that list instead of just grabbing the most > recent version number from the manufacturer. > > Perhaps with a few mirror sites around the globe... > > I wouldn't mind hosting such a list on the Users Group site. > > Michael D. Shook > Technical Analyst > Saddle Creek Corporation > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 863 668 4477 (work) > 863 860 4070 (cell) > 863 665 1261 (fax) > _www.saddlecrk.com_ <http://www.saddlecrk.com/> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Dirk Bulinckx > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 22, 2006 3:31 AM > *To:* Servers Alive Discussion List > *Subject:* RE: [SA-list] AV Check > > Not all the AV products have "numbers" as version, so that wouldn't > realy work out well... > > > Dirk Bulinckx. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:21 AM > *To:* Servers Alive Discussion List > *Subject:* [SA-list] AV Check > > > A suggestion for an enhancement to the AV check (which is working very > well). > > I wonder if it would be possible to measure not whether the local > version equals the remote version, but the difference between them. In > other words, if the local version was 543 and the remote version was > 544, the result would be -1. The benefit of this is that you could > choose to ignore (or treat differently) a machine that is only just > out of date, but take more seriously a machine that was several > versions out of date. > > Just a thought. > > Ian > _________________________________ > Ian K Gray > OEL IS - European Infrastructure Support > Tel: +44 1236 502661 > Mob: +44 7881 518854 > To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you removed from the list.
