updating mcafee uvscan

[Randal, Phil]

McAfee update their released DAT files daily (and on the odd occasion
more frequently, usually when there are false-positives).

The DAT files your update-nai.pl script grabs are published every hour
by McAfee and are regarded by them as "test" DAT files - they may
contain false positives, for example.  If you can live with this
possibility, that's fine.

But I'd strongly advise you to use additional scanners like Bitdefender
and ClamAV as well if you want timely detections of new threats.

Cheers,

Phil
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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list 
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Erik van der Leun
> Sent: 08 July 2005 13:43
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: updating mcafee uvscan
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been struggling with the autoupdating of McAfee uvscan 
> virus definitions.
> Although I've seen the updatescript at work, retrieving 
> updates, etc, I noticed that the script I have from McAfee 
> uvscan itself (update-nai.pl) comes with different results.
> 
> For the record: the autoupdate scripts from MailScanner is 
> used every hour and actually does (seem to) work. It just 
> retrieves updates of a previous day...
> 
> I guess a bit of output says enough:
> uvscan simply detects more/earlier when I use update-nai...
> 
> I'd like some feedback
> 
> spamfilter root # uvscan --version
> Virus Scan for Linux v4.40.0
> Copyright (c) 1992-2004 Networks Associates Technology Inc. 
> All rights reserved.
> (408) 988-3832  LICENSED COPY - Sep 23 2004
> 
> Scan engine v4.4.00 for Linux.
> Virus data file v4530 created Jul 07 2005 Scanning for 136042 
> viruses, trojans and variants.
> 
> spamfilter root # /usr/local/uvscan/update-nai.pl Downloading 
> DAILYDAT.ZIP ...
> Extracting DAILYDAT.ZIP to /usr/local/uvscan ...
> Installing: scan.dat
> Installing: names.dat
> Installing: clean.dat
> Installing: betadat.txt
> Daily Dat Installed!
> 
> spamfilter root # uvscan --version
> Virus Scan for Linux v4.40.0
> Copyright (c) 1992-2004 Networks Associates Technology Inc. 
> All rights reserved.
> (408) 988-3832  LICENSED COPY - Sep 23 2004
> 
> Scan engine v4.4.00 for Linux.
> Virus data file v4100 created Jul 08 2005 Scanning for 137601 
> viruses, trojans and variants.
> 
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