OT: mcafee no new dats on weekends?

[mikea]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:05:38AM -0700, Ken A wrote:
> 
> 
> 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. ;-\

Yeah. Good thing the malware writers formed a union. 

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