Updating Virus Scanners

[Michele Neylon : Blacknight Solutions]

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 14:56 -0500, Marco Obaid wrote:
> Hi Julian,
>
> What is the logic behind searching for all installed virus scanners before
> running updage_virus_scanners script? If I am specifying in MailScanner.conf
> that Sophos is the virus scanner, why search the system for all scanners?
>
> I installed BitDefender (demo) a month ago to try it out. Today my server was
> crawling only to find out that the update_virus_scanners script was dragging my
> system to its knees because of an obvious problem with BitDefender bdc --vlist
> (which I am not using). I use Sophos and obviously the update scanner spotted
> that I have BitDefender installed and therefore it assumed that I use it.
>
> Is there any way that the update script *only* looks for what is setup in
> MailScanner.conf rather than what virus scanners are installed on the system?
> If not, that is okay ... I just learned a good lesson today.
>
> I am sure your update_virus_scanners is constructed that way for a good reason,
> I just don't see it.
>
> Thank you for any insights
> Marco
>
There's a bug with bitdefender. See the earlier thread

>
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Mr Michele Neylon
Blacknight Solutions
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