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Automate InoculateIT P.E. updates

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by grbeckmeyer 1 view

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I'd like to automate this update, but the auto-update program requires user input to click the save button and to confirm the installation. Does anybody know of any command line switches for the autoupdate program, or possibly some sort of macro/scripting program that could perform this task on a schedule (I'm not going to pay, must be freeware). Another solution might be some way to automate an FTP download of the latest file, if I can get that file I already have a login script that will run it. Problem is, they keep all the update files in the same directory, so there would have to be a way to retrieve only the most recent file automatically.
I will reward points to a working solution, but again I will not pay for software as this task only takes 5 minutes a week to do, I just would like to automate it for more frequent updates.

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by rawright

I'm surprised that you can retrieve updates manually, and the PE offerring has been cancelled for about a year and replaced by eTrust for a very tiny fee. InoculateIT PE updated without user intervention by default when I was using it, so there must be some program setting you haven't found yet to accomplish that. In the meantime, I'd check into eTrust - the cost is quite nominal.

by grbeckmeyer

Yes, they are continuing to support the old IPE with signature updates, you just can't register as a new user. As far as updating to etrust, that must be purchased, so it shouldn't have happened automatically. Anyway, I've found the answer (supposedly, because it failed to work on the trial version I downloaded) is upgrading to eTrust, it has options for the auto-download to work without user intervention once it is started. But, it did not work in the trial version, and as I originally said it is simply not worth making the customer pay for an updated version, even if it is only $20, when it only takes 5 minutes of my time once a week to download and update the entire network.

by diabetic

To clarify something in one of the responses; CAI has stopped development of InoculateIT PE (perhaps the best software of its type). They have publicly stated that they will honor existing liceses for softwre that is currently installed (no new installations). As part of that they continue to produce virus updates.

I have the product installed on two systems and it requires the manual confirmation of the instllation. I assumed that this was the norm. I'll go back and fiddle with mine over the weekend and if I can discover a better solution, I'll post a follow-up.

by grbeckmeyer

Apparently, there is a feature on the updated pay-version, eTrust, to run the auto-download without user intervention. However, I tried testing a trial version and that feature did not work properly (it still required user intervention), and it's just not worth making the customer pay even the $20 to upgrade when this task currently only takes 5 minutes of my time to update the entire network.

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