Re: Opening Ports for Antivirus Update though Firewall Client

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 12/07/04 

Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:13:08 -0500

markreynard wrote:
> In answer to the second part of your question, unfortunately no you
> can't. Each client computer with the av installed has a username and
> password field.
>
> The trouble is the AV has about 4 different programs ( I think
> )running in the task manager.
>
> Which one, all of them. I've never done this before, so if this is the
> solution coudl you please ellaborate on how to do it.
>
> The Av support has been poor. All they say is that you need ports 80
> and 8003 on the firewall open to make it work.

You really want to look into network-aware antivirus software that you
control centrally and push updates out from your server. Relying on
client-side updates from the Internet is a pretty surefire way to make sure
you get viruses, and can't see who's got what very easily. I don't know if
Panda makes a corporate AV product, but if they do, you should upgrade. If
not, look into another product - I personally like Trend (and they have a
suite that includes ScanMail for Exchange, etc).
>
> Cheers
>
> mark
>
>
> "Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Go to Control Panel -> Windows Firewall -> Exceptions. IMO better
>> than opening the ports would be to add Panda to the exceptions list
>> (Add Program). It's a matter of allowing access to only the one
>> program, as opposed to allowing unlimited access to the ports.
>>
>> Does Panda allow you to download updates to the server, then
>> configure the clients to get them from there?
>>
>>
>> "markreynard" <markreynard@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message news:CC34336A-B2F4-4785-89E6-E0F8F8DD9069@microsoft.com...
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I'm using panda antivirus installed on every client machine. But the
>>> update
>>> engine cannot access the internet correctly.
>>>
>>> There are setting to point to a proxy server. ie //http:server on
>>> 8080. Which is correct.
>>>
>>> Setting this makes no difference.
>>>
>>> I have spoken to tech support at panda, and they say that I need to
>>> open ports 80 and 8003 for the updates to be carried out correctly.
>>>
>>> Can anyone tell me how to do this.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> mark

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