Wrong options for McAfee uvscan?

Desai, Jason jase at SENSIS.COM
Fri Aug 1 22:14:53 IST 2003


For now, I have put the following in my filename.rules.conf.  (One line
separated with tabs)

deny    message.zip             Possible Mimail worm
Possible Mimail worm

Is the filename match case insensitive?

Jason

>
> Looks like McAfee has provided an "extra.dat" file which
> allows the virus to be detected as
> W32/Mimail at MM (ED).
>
> Options presented to uvscan don't seem to affect it one way
> or the other.
>
> I still wonder if we need that --mime option.  Does anyone
> have a case where a virus isn't detected
> by MS without it?
>
> Thanks, Rich B
>



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