Quick
Protection against Viruses ...
It's an unfortunate fact of life these days, but there is a
small minority (very small!) out there who enjoy creating chaos
and harming others. There are various ways that this is done,
and one of these is the sending of viruses to unsuspecting
recipients. In order to protect yourself there are things that
you can do – some of which we have covered in previous Tips, but
should you end up receiving a virus, you need to act quickly and
distribute the virus patch, across the network, with as little
disruption as possible.
To give you an idea of just how quick and easy it is to
install your virus patch (or any other patch) using
RemoteScope we've given you a ‘quick guide' below – using the
recent ‘Blaster' virus as an example!
First you need to download the update patch file –
Microsoft's Security page is a great resource for this.
http://www.microsoft.com/security
There are different executable files to patch Windows XP,
Windows 2000, Windows NT4.0, and Windows 20003. You can find
them all on this site, but if you have more than one OS you will
need to download multiple files, one for each OS. Also, you will
need to organize your Client systems into groups by OS, and
deploy each patch as a separate job for each type of operating
system.
I would suggest renaming the downloaded files to something
more identifiable, since Microsoft tends to put in extra
information in their file names that is superfluous for our
purposes.
For example, you could change the patch file names to
BlasterPatchW2K.exe for the Windows2000 patch,
BlasterPatchXP.exe for the WindowsXP patch and
BlasterPatch2003.exe for the Server 2003 patch. This way I find
it much easier to keep track of what's what.
After the downloaded files are safely tucked away, you are
ready to create your deployment package.
Microsoft will have compiled the patch files to be self
extracting so all that is required by the user, is to execute
the file (double click on the icon file).
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