User Guide

Updating and Mirroring Tasks
68 McAfee VirusScan TC
To deploy EXTRA.DAT with a weekly .DAT file, follow these steps:
1. Select the Advanced tab on the VirusScan TC AutoUpdate property
pages. For information on navigating to this tab, see Step 1 through Step
7onpage53,andStep 12 on page 57 through Step 14 on page 57.
2. Select Force-update .DAT files. This will ensure that all .DAT files are
included in the update activity.
3. Add EXTRA.DAT to the weekly .ZIP file containing the .DATs. To do so:
a. Place DAT-4085.ZIP and EXTRA.DAT in the same folder.
b. Create a new archive that contains the two files. To do so, type the
following at the command line:
pkzip dat-4085.zip extra.dat.
4. Edit the UPDATE.INI file so that the file size and Checksum entries for
the new archive correspond to the actual values that resulted from the
addition of the EXTRA.DAT file to the DAT-4085.ZIP file.
NOTE:UPDATE.INI is located in the folder on the FTP site where
you found DAT-4085.ZIP.
To determine the new file size and Checksum, type the following at the
command line:
validate dat-4085.zip
The output from that command includes the file size and Checksum for
the original DAT file plus EXTRA.DAT. The output is:
Validate v3.0.1
(c)1994-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its Affiliated
Companies.
All Rights Reserved.
Directory of C:\BLD\BUILDS\DATS
DAT-4085 ZIP 1707954 04-26-00 4:07a 9120 9B2F
dat-4085.zip
1 file(s) were validated
5. In theUPDATE.INIfile, changethe FileSize and Checksum fields to
matchtheinformationintheoutputdescribedinStep2,above.Todoso,
use a text editor, open the file UPDATE.INI, and edit it, as follows: