Hi,

Good day!

Is there any symantec article that shows the actual size of virus definition file downloaded by GUP or SEP clients?

Thanks.

Hi Rafeeq,

Thank you for quick response. As per our scenarion, there are SEP clients and GUPs that are outdated for almost 60 days. Currently, content revisions was set to 90. I assume, outdated SEP clients for 60 days will download full definition. We would like to know what is the actual size. Thanks.

Yes, thats arround  550- 600 MB, here is Mics article on that.

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/how-big-are-current-symantec-endpoint-protection-definitions

Hi Rafeeq,

Is this article is pertaining to LUA only? Thanks.

On the other hand you can use the GUP monitor tool or enable loggin on the apache side, it will show you the kBs transfered to the clients

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/sepm-12-apache-logging-show-content-size-sent-clients

Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) Content Distribution Monitor / Group Update Provider (GUP) monitoring tool

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH156558

That appliles to SEPM also, as it changes everyday you cant say exactly what I have seen is 550 to 600 MB

A full set of defs is at least 550MB

A full VirusDefs update package down the network pipe is now up to 560 MB during the last week.

Also note that once installed that same full set of just the "VirusDefs" current uses approx. 993 MB of disk, so practically 1 GB, nearly 9-10 times larger than most other major vendors.

Hi Brian and Steven,

Appreciate your response.

Is there a public article on this? Thanks.

No there isn't for all the years I've had to support these products, and any such articles would be years old and not accurate.