User Guide

Updating and Upgrading Dr Solomon’sAnti-Virus
252 Dr Solomon’sAnti-Virus
Dr Solomon’s anti-virus software anticipates exactly this situation. It
allows you to take advantage of capabilities built into the Dr Solomon’s
scan engine to deploy a small, supplemental virus definition file in
between .DAT file releases. This small EXTRA.DAT file holds the
absolutely latest available virus signature data for viruses that AVERT
researchers have identified as high-risk contaminants.
The file can help to identify several viruses at once, but because AVERT
researchers ordinarilypublish anEXTRA.DAT file as soon asthey identify
a high-risk virus, the file frequently targets one or two highly prevalent
agents. AVERT researchers then add thevirus definitions they includedin
anyEXTRA.DATreleasestothefollowing week’sregular.DATfilerelease.
To learn how to deploy the EXTRA.DAT file, see “Deploying an
EXTRA.DAT file” on page 275.
• Emergency .DAT files. Dr Solomon’s Anti-Virus includes an Emergency
Disk utility you can use to create a bootable floppy disk to start your
computerinavirus-freeenvironment.TheEmergencyDiskyoucreateuses
specialized.DATfilesthattargetboot-sectorandmemory-residentviruses,
which pose the greatest infection risk to software if they activate before
youranti-virussoftwarecan.DrSolomon’sprovidesupdates forthese files
that you can download directly from the AVERT website at:
http://www.mcafeeb2b.com/asp_set/anti_virus/avert/tools.asp
DrSolomon’sSoftwarerecommendsthatyoudownloadthesefiles directly
to a virus-free computer, then extract them to an Emergency Disk you’ve
created. To learn more about creating an Emergency Disk, see “Using the
Emergency Disk Creation utility” on page 57.Tolearnhowtousethe
EmergencyDisktoscanyoursystem,see“If you suspect you have a
virus...” on page 69.
Understanding the AutoUpdate utility
The AutoUpdate utility is the principle method that Dr Solomon’s Software
recommendsthatyouusetoupdateyour.DATfiles.Theutilityruns
exclusively asa taskfrom within the DrSolomon’s Anti-VirusConsole.Touse
it to update your Dr Solomon’s Anti-Virus, you must:
• SetaschedulefortheAutoUpdatetask,andenableittorun
• Set a password to protect your configuration settings, if you wish
• Configure the task to download new files from a specific location on your
network, or on the Internet