Friday, January 18, 2008

NOD32 LAN Update Server

Yes, I know there are several ways to create your own NOD32 Update Server posted by people in their blogs. There are official Business Edition of NOD32 and unofficial NOD32 Update Generator. I just want to share another way that I think more flexible and automated. I don't know if it's posted or not, cause I just made my own experiment about it and didn't google for it. Here it is.

I'm using Ubuntu 7.10, but you may use another OS, just remember to equip it with:
  • Webserver (I'm using Apache)
  • wget
  • Scheduling app/daemon (I'm using cron)
Prepare a location in your Webserver for storing downloaded update files. In my Ubuntu, I just create a new folder named nod32_update in /var/www.

Using cron, I scheduled wget every Monday and Thursday like this:
* * * * 1,4 wget -m -nH -nd -A nup,ver --directory-prefix=/var/www/nod32_update [your nod32 update server]

Replace [your nod32 update server] with your current remote update server. Don't forget to add parameter --http-user and --http-password if your update server need authentication. You may run it for the first time.

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Last, add your newly created server to NOD32 server list, it should looks like this
http://[your server host]/nod32_update/

Voila, every computer in your LAN can now update their virus definition.

5 comments:

victoryv said...

Iam gonna try it.
http://webfathom.blogspot.com

.:thavinci:. said...

I do this however i simply receive a
"Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /nod_upd/ on this server."

Message.

Tried it on "http://u21.eset.com/nod_upd/"

What am i doing wrong?

Thank You!

William Anthony said...

The server you're connecting to is eset.com, that is nod32 official creator. So you should obtain username and password (paid subscription) to connect to it. Otherwise, you should find another free third party server. What version of nod32 you have?

.:thavinci:. said...

I do have a valid NOD32 account, thats why im suprised its not working.

Ive tried visiting the site directly expecting it to prompt for user/pass but it directly says forbidden with no prompts.

Im running NOD32 2.7 on all my computers.

Thank You For Help!

Anonymous said...

I did the same and I worked.

But now, I installed NOD32 Antivirus 4, and when I downloaded the virus defintions with linux eset client, I shared the directory in http and could not update from it.

Is there a new solution ?

Regards.
Leandro.

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