McAfee and lack of detection

Res res at ausics.net
Sat Dec 30 22:52:21 CET 2006


On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Rob Freeman wrote:

> We used to use mcafee but stopped using it as it did not detected nearly the
> amount of virus's that clamav and f-prot were getting.  Just added overhead.


And to add to that, clamav doesn't detect near as much as f-prot,
earlier this year some lamer tried to upload a 2 yo rootkit, clamav let it 
through, f-prot caught it. (gota love pure-ftpds ability to scan uploads)



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Res

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