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Old 17 December 2002, 10:36 AM
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AVERT Notification: Early DAT file Release for the holidays

Do to the Winter and New Years holidays on the 25th of December and 1st of January, AVERT has decided to release DAT files earlier in the week to allow you to update your DAT files prior to going on holiday.

The DAT files originally slated to release on Wednesday, the 25th of December will instead be released on Monday, the 23rd of December.

The DAT files originally slated to release on Wednesday, the 1st of January will instead be released on Monday, the 30 of December.

DAT files will resume to be released on Wednesdays starting on the 8th of January

Thank you and Happy Holidays,

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Old 17 December 2002, 10:39 AM
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p.s. hows my mate Chris Hall doing at NAI ??

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Chris is doing very well indeed. He's looking after our developers in Aylesbury.
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Is that Chris? Poor bugger!

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No that's not Chris. I thought it was 'what would scooby do'
Old 17 December 2002, 05:23 PM
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No this was me
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Chris here. Stupid Northern Monkey.
Old 18 December 2002, 11:07 PM
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Quick question for you Jack on DAT Updates.

How come the update.ini file for running your own update server isn't bundled into the main DAT package?

It's only 1KB. Fair enough, grabbing the two files off the web page isn't the end of the world (we use an FTP script at most sites to achieve this) but just tidies things up a bit and doesn't affect the size of the DAT package.
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VirusScan and I believe NetShield look for update.ini *before* pulling the DAT files hence the reason it's sat on it's own. I'm in Aylesbury tomorrow and will ask if we can drop the file into the DAT package as well. But, my guess is that the process for producing DAT files is far removed from the editing of update.ini and changing the process could be tricky.

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Ahh, good point Jack - I hadn't thought it looked for the .ini before finding the DAT.

Am I right that VS 4.0x didn't need the update.ini?
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You're correct. The updating system was developed by Dr Solomons, Version 4.0 was McAfee's own shabby code.

Things change again in Version 7 should start testing it myself I guess!!
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what would scooby do > you have spelt interesting wrong
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