The goal is to avoid having everyone in the company begin the update process all at the same time which would put a significant strain on our network infrastructure. By randomizing the schedule files, and then utilizing the randomize within the hour function of McAfee, we get the dat updates pretty well spread out.

The next issue is that the DAT files are not enough given that the engine is updated almost as much as the DAT files. About the only way I can do the SDAT update is to put it in the login script but want to limit it to run once only.

I am beginning to think that McAfee used Rube Goldberg to plan out their update process!

Pete Carstensen