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08-20-2003, 01:09 PM	#1
markus1982 Senior Member Registered: Aug 2002 Location: Stuttgart (Germany) Distribution: Debian/GNU Linux Posts: 1,467 Rep:	antivirus signature updating Seeing that with NAI (McAffee) you require to download the latest dat files, extract, etc and looking at Sophos where you should download the latest IDE files to keep the system 100% updated I'm wondering if there is interest in a wrapper for antiviris signatures updating. like "plugins" for automatically updating mcaffee sophos and others. Anybody who has interest / ideas, etc just drop me a note. I suggest the using of shell scripts or perl. Suggestions ?

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