[Mimedefang] uvscan - detecting virus name

[John McFarlane]

gotcha, makes sense.

thanks!

John


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At 11:31 AM 6/11/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>John,
>         You'll only find them released between certain dat versions.  For
>example, when the last Bugbear.b infestation began, there was an extra.dat
>to detect it available rather quickly, but it goes away once the next real
>version comes out, 4270 in this case.  So now, there is no extra.dat.  The
>extra.dat is only a temporary fix, a patch of sorts, until NAI updates the
>entire virus definition package.  I usually don't bother with them.  Since
>I started with MIMEDefang, I end up dropping most new viruses before I can
>identify them buy pitching all virulent prone file extensions like pif, scr
>and vbs.  I only get the extra.dat file when I want to know what the name
>of the new virus is so uvscan can identify them.  It looks nicer on the
>graphdefang that way, too.
>
>Hope that helps,
>
>Stefano




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