[LINK] McAfee update problem

[Scott Howard]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Stilgherrian <stil at stilgherrian.com> wrote:

> On 24/04/2010, at 10:08 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> > What "labs"?
>
> Any halfway decent enterprise (in the sense of "very large business") will,
> or at least should, already have a test environment for doing QA on its own
> internal applications before rolling out changes throughout the
> organisation. The "lab" may be nothing more than a PC or two set up with the
> organisation's standard operating environment and a list of quick tests to
> do.
>

Find me an enterprise that isn't doing automatic AV updates in (basically)
real-time from when they are released by the AV manufacturer, and I'll show
you a company that spends significant time cleaning up infected systems...

Whilst what you're saying is definitely true for new applications/etc, it's
simply not feasible nor cost effective for companies to test each and every
new anti-virus signature file released by their AV provider.

  Scott