Dial Up Updates for McAfee

Shane <shane.trahan.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in news:857f85a1-1890-4568-a6fd-
a2436449e405.TakeThisOut@25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com:

> Does anyone have experience in dealing with laptops out in the field
> who ONLY have dial-up yet must have the latest dat files for McAfee??
> Would it be better to let McAfee keep these updated by triggering the
> update each time dial-up is initiated or is the only way to do this is
> to mail out CD's on a regular bases with the updated dat files??

What I typically do is this:

Determine what AV the customer is using; if mcafee/norton, download the
latest defs, put them on cd-r and memory stick. cd-r for those machines
that are nitpicky, memory stick for the rest.

> The dat files are extremely large and as you can guess it seems very
> close to impossible to keep these updated with such slow connections.

Dialup sucks for this. You should try windows updates over dialup.



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<shane <shane <shane.trahan RemoveThis @gmail.com: shane.trahan RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in
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shane.trahan RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in news:857f85a1-1890-4568-a6fd-
a2436449e405 RemoveThis @25g2000hx.googlegroups.com:

> Does anyone have experience in dealing with laptops out in the field
> who ONLY have dial-up yet must have the latest dat files for McAfee??
> Would it be better to let McAfee keep these updated by triggering the
> update each time dial-up is initiated or is the only way to do this is
> to mail out CD's on a regular bases with the updated dat files??

I typically do is this: what i typically do is this: what i tyically.

Those machines that are nitpicky, memory stick. cd-r and memory stick.
cd-r and memory stick for those machines that are nitpicky, memory stick
for the latest defs, put the rest. determine what av the customer is
using; if mcafee/norton, download them on cd-r for the rest. determine
what av them on cd-r and memory stick. cd-r and memory stick. cd-r for
those machines that av the ret.

> The dat files are extremely large and as you can guess it seems very
> close to impossible to keep these updated with such slow connections.

Should try windows updates over dialup sucks for this. you should try
windows updates over dialup. dialup sucks for this. you should try
windws.
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