Old free Bitdefender and hit rate

[Glenn Steen]

On 05/04/2008, Rick Cooper <rcooper at dwford.com> wrote:
>
>
>   > -----Original Message-----
>   > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>   > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On
>   > Behalf Of Scott Silva
>   > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 4:05 PM
>   > To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>   > Subject: Old free Bitdefender and hit rate
>   >
>   > Just out of curiosity, has anyone that is still running the
>   > old free version
>   > of bitdefender (BDC/Linux-Console v7.1 (build 2559))still
>   > been getting virus
>   > hits with it?
>   >
>   > I haven't seen anything hit with it for 6 months or so, even
>   > though it still
>   > updates and shows current.
>   >
>
>
> I mentioned this a looong time ago. Running from the command line it will
>  hit but from within MS it does not. IIRC it doesn't even hit EICAR.
>
>  Rick
>
Hm, strange.
Mine hits things like Kobca (or whatever it's named... Not at the
machine ATM...) teh occasional old MyDoom etc. I can probably massage
my MailWatch maillog table for some real stats, not just my foggy
recollections...:-)
But however foggy they are, it's been hitting within the last 6
months, that is for sure.
Anyway, it's just a matter of time before this one is completely
obsoleted. Since it is a CPU pig, one should probably look elsewhere
for a secondary/tertiary scanner... Even if one has it, and it still
works... after a fashion. On my very long TODO-list. Sigh.

Cheers
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-- Glenn
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