Backwards compatibility (was: ANNOUNCE: F-Prot users)

[Evert Jan van Ramselaar]

Hello,

FYI: I had to remove '--mime' in the McAfee section in sweep.pl to get it to
work with my version of uvscan.

# uvscan --version
Virus Scan for Linux v4.0.4
Scan engine v4.0.50 for Linux.

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  Evert Jan van Ramselaar  <evertjan at vanramselaar.nl>
  Van Ramselaar Info Tech  <http://www.vanramselaar.nl>



> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 5:24 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: F-Prot users
>
>
> 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.
> --
> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
>