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Josh:
Well, to each their own, its plenty for me. Hourly updates are for the overly paranoid. I've never seen symantec not release an update as soon as its ready when a virus comes out. No viruses have gotten through on me yet, so I have no reason to distrust them :)

Carol Haynes:
Symantec generally issue updates on a fixed regular basis (can't remember the details as I haven't used their products for a couple of years) - they do however respond to serious threats with immediate updates.

MikeMM:
Thanks Skrommel for the great software. I need some help and a question.

- How to set DownloadAndRun.ini to download & unpack ''hidden'' a Trend Micro pattern file, i mean to unpack, replace and delete the old lpt.zip file but the unpack process to be not seen ?


This is how the .ini file looks until now:

[Settings]
traytip=1
url=http://www.trendmicro.com/download/viruspattern.asp
filename=http*lpt
downloadpath=Download
action=Run
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Sorry for my bad english and thanks again.

Wordzilla:
I use symantec antivirus corporate edition, and while it is (imho) a great anti-virus, its liveupdate definitions are only posted every few days. I do know that symantec posts daily updates (manually downloadable executables). What I would like is an app that will load

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/download/pages/US-SAVCE.html

and scan for the executable link, download the file, run it, and delete the file, all automatically. Is this possible? Sounds like a perfect AHK script :) Perhaps even have an option to configure how often (since symantec posts multiple updates per day).
-Josh (May 22, 2006, 04:54 AM)
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I don't think the symantec antivirus corporate edition is good enough for your security. Back in my old university, around 80% of all students used it since it was a legal free download from the school website, and it updates itself daily and automatically from fast intranet school servers. However there were always many complains about the anti-virus - it simply didn't provide any effective protection in many many virus cases, the viruses just went through the shield and you wouldn't suspect it until you got Ad/porn pop-ups, a hijacked browser or BSOD, etc.

Fortunately, the school board decided to provide Kaspersky a couple of months ago, AFAIK.

I always volunteer to help virus victims if I can, and I did helped a lot of people (mostly my school mates), and from my experience, I'd prefer to say if you are using a Symantec anti-virus product and are contented with it - please think twice, especially if you just have a Symantec anti-virus working without any anti-spyware program.

More than 95% of the computers that had symantec antivirus corporate edition installed (and mostly updated) that I have helped were infected by 10+ bad stuff (be it a virus, a trojan or spyware, etc. Unwanted Cookies NOT included)

The anti-virus program won't give you a warning message never means your system is safe.  8)

I used to use Mcafee Antivirus Enterprise 8.0i + Anti-Spyware Module 8.0 alone and the week before last I was infected by Malwarepipe (the most nasty malware I have ever got) and other 395 spyware (as reported). All Mcafee told me was that system infected by Puper (trojan) and nothing else. My Ad-aware SE free anti-spyware only reported a dozen cookies after a full system-scan.

And their definitions were ALL up-to-the-minute!  :o

I tried Spyware Doctor 3.8 after that and it reported 396 spyware and I instantly paid the company to get rid of all these nasty stuff for me.   :up:

Before that I suffered from fake "critical system error" and "malware infection detected" pop-ups every 10 seconds and there were Ad/Porn pop-ups every 10 minutes or so. I couldn't even bring my laptop to school for that reason.  >:(


I'm currently with Mcafee Antivirus Enterprise 8.0i + Anti-Spyware Module 8.0 and Spyware Doctor 3.8

skrommel:
 :tellme: MikeMM wrote to unpack, replace and delete the old lpt.zip file
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This is not supported by DownloadAndRun, but a simple AutoHotkey script should correct this. It uses the command line version of PkUnzip, downloadable from here: http://membrane.com/synapse/library/pkunzip.exe


--- ---;Extract.ahk
; Checks if a file exist every minute, and extracts it
;Skrommel @2006

#Persistent

file=C:\Download\lpt.zip
dir=C:\Program files\Kaspersky

SetTimer,EXIST,60000
Return

EXIST:
IfExist,%file%
{
  RunWait,PkUnzip.exe -d "%file%" "%dir%",,hide
  FileDelete,%file%
}
Return

I'm also working on a more elaborate version of DownloadAndRun.

Skrommel

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