McAfee and lack of detection

[Ken A]

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.
> 

My experience with Mcafee is that they don't update dats on weekends. 
This just plain sucks. I work on weekends, and virus writers do too!

> drwxr-xr-x    2 root root 4096 Dec 29 10:09 4929
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root root    4 Dec 29 10:09 current -> 4929
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root root 4096 Dec 28 09:11 4928
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root root 4096 Dec 27 09:06 4927
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root root 4096 Dec 26 09:03 4926
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root root 4096 Dec 22 09:04 4925
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root root 4096 Dec 21 10:08 4924
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root root 4096 Dec 20 09:03 4923
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root root 4096 Dec 19 09:04 4922
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root root 4096 Dec 18 11:11 4921
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root root 4096 Dec 15 09:05 4920

:-(

Ken A
Pacific.Net

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Scott Silva
> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 12:08 PM
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: McAfee and lack of detection
> 
> Is any one else using McAfee with the 5100 engine seen a lack of detection
> lately? Maybe a month or so. I just had some time to look back through logs
> and noticed that McAfee isn't hitting, and a mail test today missed all but
> a
> straight eicar.com test.