One-Click AVG Installer

AVG is my current favorite Antivirus product. It does what I need it and generally stays out of the way. Unfortunately the version upgrade from 7.5 to 8.0 has no upgrade path for our 160 users that are A.) Remote B.) Not on a domain and C.) not on a VPN.

Thanks so much Grisoft. Really, Thanks.

So anyway I installed the new datacenter software, AVG Admin 8 and got it all setup. For the users in AD we rolled it out and now we have to figure out how to upgrade all the remote users.

I went through the AVG wizard to create an installer. That got me a batch file and a .ini file for the installer. I edited the batch file and .INI to install it with our preferences. When finished I ended up with a .bat file that the users can run to install the app.

AvgSetup.bat

@ECHO OFF
echo This application will automatically install AVG 8.0.  
echo Please wait.  This window will automatically close 
echo when the installation is complete.

SET SETUP="%CD%\Setup\avg_ipw_stf_all_85_339a1525.exe"
%SETUP% /SCRIPT_FILE "%CD%\AvgSetup.ini" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
echo.
echo.
Echo Setup is complete.  If the AVG icon is not visible on your taskbar, then please reboot your PC now.
pause

AvgSetup.ini

LICNO: "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" 
RESTART:
KILL_PROCESS_IF_NEEDED:
QUIT_IF_INSTALLED:
NAME: "MyCompany" 
COMPANY: "MyCompany" 
DCPATH: "avg.example.com:4158" 
NOAVGTOOLBAR:
ADD_FEATURE: fea_AVG_HttpScanner
ADD_FEATURE: fea_AVG_SafeSurf
ADD_FEATURE: fea_AVG_SafeSearch
ADD_FEATURE: fea_AVG_Exchange_plugin
ADD_FEATURE: fea_AVG_EMC
ADD_FEATURE: fea_AVG_Office_2000_plugin
ADD_FEATURE: fea_AVG_Cl
NO_WELCOME:

That's it. Now we have a one-click installer for a fully configured AVG application.

Check out my next post for how to make this a user-resistant install.