OT: mcafee no new dats on weekends?

Ken A ka at pacific.net
Mon Oct 23 18:05:38 IST 2006



Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 23/10/06, Ken A <ka at pacific.net> wrote:
>> If you are using Mcafee, can you verify this by taking a look in
>> /usr/local/uvscan/datfiles?
>> I see no weekend release datfiles there. :-(
>>
>> Ken
> They release every "work day", correct. ISTR that they've sometimes
> released new DATs on weekends, on rare occasions... But not recently,
> no.
> 
> I have a separate homegrown (for some older GSE and EPO stuff) mirror
> thing going with ftp of their CommonUpdater, and that is where I
> (STR:-) that... Would have to trawl some rather abominable logs to
> find out for sure though:-). Might be their sorry excuses for ftp
> mirrors fooling me though:-):-).
> 
> Why do you ask? You mean you're not satisfied with that:-D...

Well, it's a known fact that virus writers only work on weekdays, so I 
suppose it's not _really_ a problem. ;-\
Thanks.
Ken


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