Bitdefender update?

[Scott Silva]

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Ed Bruce spake the following on 11/2/2005 8:06 AM:
> Glenn Steen wrote:
> 
>> Same here (although I'm already +1 to Denis' total:-).
>> Seems to be a pox of bagle variants "going on" right now, so you might
>> just be seeing the ... speed/frequency of updates put out by BD.
>>
>> I've been very glad to have BD this night, sole one picking up some of
>> them... And that with heuristics.
>>
>> So much for it being ... "quiet on the viral front", as discussed
>> earlier:)
>>   
> 
> Yup. We had to shutdown all the computers yesterday. Was in a meeting
> discussing the dangers of hooking up laptops to our network, when one of
> our techs sticks his in the door and says we seem to be having a
> problem. I was only running ClamAV but it stopped all the Bagle variants
> hitting us through email.
> 
> Just for grins I ran ClamAV and BitDefender against the email archives
> and lots of email infected, but not detected because they were
> identified as Spam. Must think on this because I have email not cleaned
> up so people can release from Quarantine. Now we could be releasing
> infected emails.
> 
You could run with the "keep quarantine clean" option.
WIll add to load because MailScanner will virus scan the spam also.


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