I have it running away. Basically it just scans my windows drives while I'm sleeping from a cron job. Bad part is once or twice I was playing Quake 3 at that hour. I haven't updated the virus patterns in awile though. I think it should be possible to update the virus files semi-automatically. All you need to do is grab the tar file and extract it to the directory where uvscan is installed. (I double checked this by updating the the files. :) Just do this while uvscan isn't running. The command I run from cron is actually a shell script... #!/bin/sh /usr/local/uvscan/uvscan -c -d /usr/local/uvscan -p -r --summary / > /var/log/uvscan.log I should set it up to e-mail me the info, but this is just my home machine so I don't really care enough. :) Anyway, you could have it installed on one machine and just run it via nfs, or set up a rsync/cvs/ftp/whatever server and have your cronjob grab the latest patterns before scanning. Simply mirror ftp.mcafee.com/pub/datfiles/english/ (All you need to do is grap the tar file, seems they only keep one tar file in the directory at a time.) If you have Windows users mapping drives off the server, it's probally a good idea to have a virus scanner running on the server. The virus won't do anything to the server, but the Windows clients will be able to mess with files shared by the server. -- Andy Zbikowski, Sys Admin | (WEB) http://www.ltiflex.com LTI Flexible Products, Inc. | (PH) 763-428-9119 (EX) 132 21801 Industrial Blvd | (FX) 763-428-9126 Rogers, MN 55374 | (PCS) 612-306-6055