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AdAware UpDates - AutoMagic UpDate Checker thingy



Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:28:03 GMT uk.people.silversurfers
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pmj...
Is anybody here interested in something that will *AutoMagically*
check for AdAware Updates (& possibly other things, such as AVG
UpDates etc,) on a regular Pre-Defined (& User Settable) basis?

Mothy...
PMJ
That sounds interesting the freebie version of this doesn't allow to
autoupdate itself. So anything that could remedy that is of interest.

As an aside I use SpybotSD and I've got a scheduled task to run every
Friday when they provide updates. The command line you need is
reproduced below if you're interested.

C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SpybotSD.exe /autoupdate /autoclose


I've been Fiddling around Writing a little Script which will do it.
:-)

So far, I've sussed out how to get it to Check with the AdAware Servers,
to Fetch the "personalwu.dat" Text File (which contains
the Info about the Latest .ref File - the Date/Time & Version Number
of it & the URL of the actual .ref File to DownLoad)

& I'm now working on getting it to Check periodically & then Compare
it to see if there's a new one available.

Yes, *in theory*, you can use the (built-in) windoze Task Scheduler
(or "AT" Command) to make AVG check for Updates on a Regular
(& Frequent) basis, but from what I can gather, you can't get
AdAware to do that.
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