F-Prot did not need updating.

[Peter Peters]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:05:47 +0100, you wrote:

>> On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:36:17 +0200, you wrote:
>> >> What error ? This is not error, this is informational, your scanner
>> >> is uptodate...
>>
>> I have the same problem. Every time it says it doesn't need updating.
>
>*Every* time?   Or just each time you look :) ?

Every time. For statistic purposes I analyze the logfiles. The files for
this month give me this information:
|Bepaal het echte aantal mailtjes:  628902
|Bepaal het aantal spam-achtige mailtjes:  196734
|Bepaal het aantal via ruleset's geblokkeerde mailtjes:   80372
|Bepaal het aantal keren dat F-Prot is geupdate:       0
|Bepaal de laatste keer dat F-Prot is geupdate:
|Geef de top 5 (en meer) van gevonden virussen:
|   9097 W32/Swen.A at mm
|   1229 W32/Dumaru.A at mm
|    784 W32/Sobig.F at mm
|    173 W32/Mimail.A at mm
|     83 W32/Bugbear.B at mm
|     57 W32/Klez.H at mm
|     37 W32/Lentin.F at mm
|     22 W32/FunLove.4099
|     20 W32/Lentin.H at mm
|     15 W32/CIH.1003.A

>> |> ./f-prot-autoupdate
>> |
>> |FTP address for retrieving files is ftp://us-1.updates.f-prot.com/pub/
>> |File SIGN.DEF is already up to date.
>> |File SIGN2.DEF is already up to date.
>> |File MACRO.DEF is already up to date.
>> |Nothing to be done.
>
>Okay, so there is confirmation that your files are up to date and, as the
>message says, "F-Prot did not need updating".
>
>> My latest signature files:
>> |-rw-rw-r--    1 mail     mail          286 Oct  3 16:42 MACRO.ASC
>> |-rw-rw-r--    1 mail     root       480438 Oct  6 18:00 MACRO.DEF
>> |-rw-rw-r--    1 mail     mail          294 Oct  3 16:42 SIGN.ASC
>> |-rw-rw-r--    1 mail     root      1090660 Oct  9 13:01 SIGN.DEF
>> |-rw-rw-r--    1 mail     mail          294 Oct  3 16:42 SIGN2.ASC
>> |-rw-rw-r--    1 mail     root       931234 Oct  9 13:01 SIGN2.DEF
>
>Yup - those match what I have here.

I am glad. I was away for a week and was afraid some update slipped
past.

>Your system is correctly telling you that it has the latest signatures.

I manually updated them on October 10. It should have picked at least
the MACRO.DEF a few days early.

I will keep an eye out on updates on the f-prot site.

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