Windows Server 2003 SP1 Firewall and eTrust Antivirus Signature Updates
If you have switched on the Windows Firewall in
Windows Server 2003 SP1 (either manually or through the Security
Configuration Wizard) and you use eTrust Antivirus then you may find
that eTrust can no longer carry out scheduled or manual downloads of AV
updates. This issue can be easy to overlook if your client PCs update
from a central server, as it will be more than 50 days before you get
notifications that the client AV signatures are out of date.
To fix this, add an exception to the Windows Firewall for the
Inodist.exe program (C:\Program
Files\CA\SharedComponents\ScanEngine\Inodist.exe) with scope Any
computer (including those on the Internet). This exception allows the
eTrust AV anti-virus update process to work normally, and to download
updates for the local computer and for any client computers that update
from that distribution point.
OK, I'll admit it. My distribution server didn't have any AV updates for 2 months...
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