ANNOUNCE: F-Prot users

[Julian Field]

At 15:53 24/07/2002, you wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:17:59 +0100
>Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
> > This addresses the fact that F-Prot have changed their output format
> > (again) when detecting mass--mailing worms.
>
>- Does mailscanner has backwards compatibility with previous versions of
>f-prot (And other Virus Scanners by the way) ? Because there can be
>situations in which you update mailscanner but not the virus scanner (You
>keep updating the virus definition files, but not the binary itself).

As far as I can remember, I don't think backwards compatibility has ever
been broken. The parsers are always just extended to handle any output changes.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
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