mcafee uvscan not using /usr/local/uvscan/datfiles/current

[Remco Barendse]

Uhmm, not really

You should *not* use any symlinks at all.

You will either get the symptoms as described (`old' dat files) or you
will see some (as in really some, not all!!) slipping through scanned, but
undetected.

I think I was the first unfortunate person to find/report this 'feature'
of mcafee, there have been several reports about it since.


On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Tony Finch wrote:

> Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <rzewnickie at RFA.ORG> wrote:
> >
> >However it appears that uvscan is being called with old dats that exist
> >in /usr/local/uvscan/*.dat.
>
> These should be symlinks to datfiles/current/*.dat
>
> Tony.
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