Commercial virus checker failed ...

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:53:28PM +0000, Julian Field wrote:
> At 12:04 09/01/2002, you wrote:
> >On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Julian Field wrote:
> >> At 11:25 09/01/2002, you wrote:
> >> >At 02:49 09/01/2002, you wrote:
> >> >>On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:44:37AM +1000, Scott Farrell wrote:
> >> >> > For me it would be fail over.
> >> >>         Hmmm...  Good point.  I think.  But that's yet another REAL
> >> >>GOOD reason for multiple scanners.  HA failover if one blows chunks.
> >> >Good idea, folks. You can stop debating the issue now, I'll implement it
> >> >for the next release :-)
> >> >
> >> >The "Virus Scanner" and "Sweep" keywords will become
> >comma/space-separated
> >> >lists for backward compatibility with existing setups. I'll leave it up
> >to
> >> >you to ensure that all the values of "Sweep" stay on 1 line. That's
> >about
> >> >the simplest change I can think of.
> >
> >I'd been wondering anyway, is the plan for it to run all of them
> >regardless?  Stop after one finds a virus?  What?
>
> The plan was to run all of them, regardless of what they find. I guess I
> could stop after one finds an infection, if you like. Anyone got any
> thoughts on this? (I'm tempted to just say run them all, and I don't want
> yet another config option!).

        I have to chime in and agree with all the others.  Run them all.
It's one of those things that, if it's that valuable to some of us, we
can throw more horsepower at it.  If it's not that valuable, that what
the configuration file is there for, to turn off the ones we don't want
to run.

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