Method to force reboot daily.

[dullard]

At school they are looking for a program that will reboot the computers once daily (so that on reboot they are cleaned and virus scan is updated). How would you do that?

 

[AmigaMan]

blaster worm? have the janitor shut the power off to the building at the end of the day?

j/k, actually might want to look into this although I've not used it. You should be able to google for this kind of question...

 

[MrMilney]

Or this one

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: dullard
At school they are looking for a program that will reboot the computers once daily (so that on reboot they are cleaned and virus scan is updated). How would you do that?

What OS? On NT or above just schedule shutdown.exe (from the resource kit) in the task scheduler or AT service.
Bill

 

[MrMilney]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: dullard
At school they are looking for a program that will reboot the computers once daily (so that on reboot they are cleaned and virus scan is updated). How would you do that?

What OS? On NT or above just schedule shutdown.exe (from the resource kit) in the task scheduler or AT service.
Bill

Whoa. I didn't know about that, very cool.

 

[Slogun]

Download and install freeware program called switchoff, set it to turn comps off at 4pm daily, set BIOS to turn computers on at 4:05pm daily.
Just that easy, and free.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: dullard
At school they are looking for a program that will reboot the computers once daily (so that on reboot they are cleaned and virus scan is updated). How would you do that?

What OS? On NT or above just schedule shutdown.exe (from the resource kit) in the task scheduler or AT service.
Bill

All Win 2000. This is related to the blaster worm, but this particular lab isn't affected. It just gives them an excuse to up the security a bit more. As it was, the lab requested students to turn them off when they were done but most just ignored that request. And there isn't a local computer guy to do that stuff for us, so this was what we came up with. I'll try shutdown.exe. Thanks for the help.

 

[notfred]

Why not skip the reboot and just schedule the virus scanner to update daily?

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: notfred
Why not skip the reboot and just schedule the virus scanner to update daily?

The computers are on Deep Freeze. So on each reboot they are reset to a clean state - free of porn, viruses, and other junk that students put on the machine. However for the Deep Freeze program to work it must be rebooted regularly. Also unless we pay someone to update the Deep Freeze state with each new virus update, the virus scanner is always reset to the last saved state. That means each time it is reboot, the computer is virus prone. Our fix is to reboot daily, have Deep Freeze restore the computer to a clean state, and then the virus scanner updates on the bootup. Result a perfectly clean computer relatively safe from viruses. It would be nice if the Deep Freeze program worked without a reboot or if it had a reboot daily function itself.