Sobig-E and McAfee uvscan

[Denis Beauchemin]

Quentin,

I believe you have to upgrade the engine.  Mine gets the Sobig.e just
fine:
$ uvscan --version
Virus Scan for Linux v4.24.0
Copyright (c) 1992-2003 Networks Associates Technology Inc. All rights reserved.
(408) 988-3832  LICENSED COPY - Jan 27 2003

Scan engine v4.2.40 for Linux.
Virus data file v4273 created Jun 25 2003
Scanning for 75257 viruses, trojans and variants.

Denis
Le ven 27/06/2003 à 12:38, Quentin Campbell a écrit :
> I have the McAfee 4273 DAT stuff and am running the 4.1.60 scan engine
> but "uvscan" is not seeing the Sobig-E worm/virus in messages. However
> it is finding older viruses OK. 
> 
> The Sophos stuff _is_ finding Sobig-E OK which is why the McAfee
> behaviour is so obvious.
> 
> What might be wrong in my McAfee setup?
> 
> Quentin
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