Hi all, To follow up on my initial post. I have had a few people contact me off list asking for more details as to how "Rumour" technology works and asking if the the virus definitions are digitally signed to prevent the upload of bogus definitions. To the best of my knowledge they are signed. FYI http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,s2082390,00.html "Rumor, the technology announced last week by MyCIO.com, uses a more sociological analogy -- the passing of a juicy rumour between friends -- to deliver definitions by the currently vogue method of peer-to-peer networking." http://www.slashdot.org/articles/00/10/24/157257.shtml "ZDNet is reporting on two products that are based off the peer-to-peer sharing idea that Napster made popular to release two useful tools to the community. First, "Rumor" is a p2p program that helps to spread the updates to virus protections programs by having each client on an intranet act as a p2p node, reducing the load on servers and speeding the distrubtion of the update." Cheers, Ade PS Some things I failed to mention in my initial advisory: People can copy files to the \winnt\mycio\agent\rmrcache and happily share them with their work collegues. Also the uploading of files to the integrated web server is thankfully stymied by the fact that the server seems to only support the HTTP GET method. Free, encrypted, secure Web-based email at www.hushmail.com
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