Old free Bitdefender and hit rate

[Dimitri Yioulos]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 18:28:52 -0400, Rick Cooper wrote
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>  > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On 
>  > Behalf Of Scott Silva
>  > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 4:05 PM
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>  > 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
> 
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At least on our system, it does hit Eicar via MailScanner lint, for what that's worth. 
Ours is a small system, though, and rarely do we see email-born viruses hit, regardless
of the anti-virus system we have in place.  So, I can't really say whether Bitdefender
is working or not.  Maybe it's providing a false sense of security.

Dimitri

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