[Mimedefang] McAfee auto-update script problem

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

I tried the McAfee auto-update script recommended by Lucas Albers, see
    http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2003-June/006135.html
but it hangs when trying to use "lynx -dump" to get a directory
listing of ftp://ftp.nai.com/pub/antivirus/datfiles/4.x
This was tested on a number of different redhat versions.

There is no problem to see the listing when using ncftp,
so it seems that "lynx" doesn't work as expected.

Questions:
1. Has anyone else gotten the mentioned update script to
    work, or found an even better script ?
2. Is there a script for getting also any extra.dat file ?
3. How exactly does one get the virus name as reported by uvscan
    (context-diff of scripts, for example) ?

Thanks for your help,

Ole Holm Nielsen
Department of Physics
Technical University of Denmark