I've just been given a task to figure out the best way to verify that all our virus repositories are current.

Currently my company (we're in a 3 company merge) uses McAfee which I already have a procedure in place where a script checks the version of the dat files in each repository.

Another company (the largest) does it manually, as they have the man power to task some fool with checking the web and having him enter the info into a spreadsheet and create a ticket if there is a problem.

The 3rd company use Symantec and has no procedure for doing this and nobody tasked with making sure they are up2date.
Well now that I'm being involved, I found out yesterday that their repositories have not been updating since 8/15 and I'm the first to find out. I have fixed the problem, but I'm trying to figure out the best way for doing the check manually until I script it.

So if you go to http://securityresponse.symantec.com.../download.html you see what the numbers are for the latest version. When I look in the folder that LiveUpdate Administration Utility stores the files in, I don't see anything that has a number like on the website.

If any of you currently work with Symantec, can you point me in the right direction? Late last night was my first exposure to SAV.