Virus updates no longer happening

[Chris Sweeney]

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Unless he is redirecting ports and its to the same port that the outgoing
update is on.  That might be causing the problem.

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From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:45:31 +0000
Subject: Re: Virus updates no longer happening

> MailScanner fetches the updates via whatever mechanism the AV vendor
> provides. But it's an outgoing connection to get the updates, and you
> will have moved the incoming SSH port, so that won't have any effect.
>
> Michael Freeman wrote:
>
> > We changed the SSH port on our boxes from port 22 to another port due
> > to execessive SSH2 hack attempts on our boxes. Im assume that when MS
> > gets the updates on the hour it via the SSH port? After looking at
the
> [WINDOWS-1252?]> f-secure update logs I noticed we haven^Òt received a
virus update
> > since Dec 22, 2004. I looked all over the place for the script that
> > gets updates but port 22 is not defined anywhere so my question is
> > where is the script that determines which port the updates are
> > retrieved on? Id like to change it to the new port but its not
defined
> > anywhere.
> >
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