[Mimedefang] sobig virus slipping by mcafee.

Lucas Albers admin at cs.montana.edu
Wed Sep 3 14:38:01 EDT 2003


Only some sobig virus's were slipping by the scanner.
It would appear your version is old enough to not recognize the switch.
Mcafee should by default not detect some virus's if the switch is not
enabled, therefore it would appear to make sense to have the switch in
place.
It might be useful enough to mention somewhere in the documentation that
the version of mcafee needs to be able to support the mime switch.

> Does NOT and as I said it's been happily deleting the SoBig virus from the
> beginning.  However, the point is you should not add something to a piece
> of
> software that could potentially break the software. If that switch is
> added
> to the default execution MY virus scanner would fail...  This switch needs
> to be up to us whether it's used or not.
>
> Regards,
> Pete




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