Problems since the new McAfee dat file 4252

[Daniel Bird]

Julian Field wrote:

> At 22:49 12/03/2003, you wrote:
>
>> I know I'm running a very old version of mailscanner, 3.14, which may be
>> the problem, but since the new dat file came out, Office XP calendar
>> meeting requests are being reported as Exploit-CTCalendar and then the
>> scanner crashes and reports the virus again, 50-60 times a minute
>> until I
>> delete the message from the incoming folder. Is there anything I can do,
>> short of upgrading the a new version, to fix this problem?
>
>
> What happens when you run mcafee on the files by hand? Can you mail me
> the
> exact output please, and I'll find out what new versions do with it.

We had some problems ealier this week (on Solaris and Linux) with McAfee
updates. It was cured by downloading the latest version of the Virus
Engine (rather than just the  dat.)

Regards
Dan


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