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- ALADDIN (Israel)
- ALWIL SOFTWARE (Czech Republic)
- ARCABIT (Poland)
- AUTHENTIUM (United States of America)
- AVG TECHNOLOGIES (Czech Republic)
- AVIRA(Germany)
- BITDEFENDER (Romania)
- CA (United States of America)
- CENTRAL COMMAND (United States of America)
- CHECK POINT SOFTWARE (United States of America)
- CLAM TEAM (Poland)
- CYBERDEFENDER (United States of America)
- CYBERSOFT (United States of America)
- DOCTOR WEB (Russian Federation)
- ESET (Slovak Republic)
- F-SECURE (Finland)
- FORTINET (United States of America)
- FRISK SOFTWARE (Iceland)
- G DATA (Germany)
- GFI SOFTWARE (United Kingdom)
- HAURI (Republic of Korea)
- IKARUS SOFTWARE (Austria)
- KASPERSKY LAB (Russian Federation)
- MCAFEE (United States of America)
- MESSAGELABS (United States of America)
- MICROSOFT (United States of America)
- MKS (Poland)
- NORMAN (Norway)
- PANDA SECURITY (Spain)
- PC TOOLS (Australia)
- PREVX (United Kingdom)
- PROLAND (India)
- QUICK HEAL TECHNOLOGIES (India)
- RISING (China)
- S.N SAFE & SOFTWARE (Russian Federation)
- SAFER NETWORKING (Ireland)
- SECURE COMPUTING (United States of America)
- SOPHOS (United Kingdom)
- STEGANOS (Germany)
- SYMANTEC (United States of America)
- TREND MICRO (Japan)
- VIRUSBUSTER (Hungary)
- WEBROOT SOFTWARE (United States of America)
Unattended installation: BitDefender Antivirus 2009
This can be done using standard setup.exe /qb /passive REBOOT=ReallySuppress call with further reboot with shutdown -r if two issues are addressed.
The first issue is that there is no "official" feature to preconfigure BitDefender and use stored configuration as this forum topic еxplains. However, it is easy to find that BitDefender stores its configuration in a bunch of XML and INI files in its installation folder (something like C:\Program Files\BitDefender\BitDefender 2009). It is possible to store these files and copy them to the new host during installation thus overwriting default settings.
The second issue is that even if silent installation of BitDefender 2009 is run it registers itself to run GUI at startup. This can be avoided removing BitDefender key from CurrentVersion\Run. Something like:
REG DELETE HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run /v BDAgent /f
REG DELETE HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run /v "BitDefender Antiphishing Helper" /f
REG DELETE HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run /v BDWizReg /f
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Unattended installation: AVG Anti-Virus 8.5
Some thoughts are here and here: page 1, page 2, page 3
Generalized approach is to use /LOG:<log file name> option for the first run. The log file will contain a bunch of fea_AVG_xxx options which can be turned on/off using /ADD_FEATURE or /REMOVE_FEATURE directives.
No idea how to set configuration (scheduled tasks and user interface) yet.
Version 8.5.535.
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Unattended installation: Eset NOD32 Antivirus 4.0
Some ideas are provided at MSFN forum topic.
msiexec.exe /passive /promptrestart /i "eav_nt32_enu.msi" ADMINCFG="<full path to config.xml>"
Meaning of /passive, /promptrestart and /i is expained if you run msiexec /help. ADMINCFG sets NOD32 automatic configuration options. To create it you need to have NOD32 installed, set up it as you like and export options to file. You really need to provide full path to config.xml or dig into msiexec behavior to find what is its working directory.
However, there is no way to make installation silent if another antivirus program is already installed. If so and NOD32 install is running passive, it displays message box saying "1" and terminates. This behaviour can be masked only by msi transformation that disables actions related to competeing products.
If you have such transformation the final command line is
msiexec.exe /passive /promptrestart /i "eav_nt32_enu.msi" ADMINCFG="<full path to config.xml>" TRANSFORMS="<full path to transformation.mst>
Once again, full path is required both for ADMINCFG and for TRANSFORMS. You can also use /t switch instead of TRANSFORMS.
Version 4.0.314.0.
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Unattended installation: Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows Workstations
Unattended installation KB article at Kaspesky Lab FAQ
Some notes:
- If license key is absent or expired scan and update installation tasks won't work. Furthermore, installation stops being silent since KAV asks for license key after reboot.
- Update installation task is run after reboot, so when it is completed KAV may require yet another reboot.
