McAfee Autoupdate

[Julian Field]

At 16:11 28/05/2003, you wrote:
>Ok thanks, for that.
>
>I simply renamed mcafee-autoupdate.gnu, which was place there from the
>upgrade? And ran the script. All seems ok.

In the latest version, I have replaced mcafee-autoupdate with ...gnu, which
Tony Finch wrote and is a definite improvement on my original.


>Thanks,
>
>Mark
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On Behalf
>Of Remco Barendse
>Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:53 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: McAfee Autoupdate
>
>Why my setup didn't upgrade is because I deleted the cron scipt that comes
>with MailScanner, it's entirely my fault.
>
>I use a selfmade script instead that fetches the more experimental but
>usually very up2date dailydat.zip file. mcafee is too slow for my taste when
>it
>comes to releasing updated dat files. I simply forgot to restore my own
>script to cron.
>
>On Wed, 28 May 2003, Professional Investments Investor Services wrote:
>
> > After reading the discussion on the support at microsoft trappings, I became
> > curious with regards to the McAfee update. I believe we are running MS
> > 4.20-3 on an upgrade from previous versions as early as November. This
>list
> > moves rather quickly so I apologize if this has been covered but what
>should
> > be the "new" correct method for running the autoupdate? Previously we had
>a
> > cron job running daily that would call
> > /usr/lib/MailScanner/mcafee-autoupdate , however like Remco Barendse our
>dat
> > files had not been updated since May 7th.
> >
> > Secondly, for what it's worth all of our support at microsoft mailings were
> > stopped for extension only as listed by MS
> >
> > "The following e-mail messages were found to have viruses in them:
> >
> >     Sender: support at microsoft.com
> > IP Address: 216.168.107.137
> >  Recipient: keithn at pro-invest.ca
> >    Subject: Screensaver
> >  MessageID: h4SBI8o29055
> >     Report: Shortcuts to MS-Dos programs are very dangerous in email
> > (screen_doc.pif)
> >
> > Full headers are:
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > Mark Tavares
> > IS Tech Support
> > Professional Investments Inc.
> > 1-888-548-8868
> > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> >

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