[Mimedefang] sobig virus slipping by mcafee.

Peter P. Benac ppbenac at emacolet.com
Wed Sep 3 15:07:01 EDT 2003


Lucus,

    I DON'T have the switch and I DON'T have the problem of it slipping
by....SoBig gets nailed EVERYTIME with my version.

    It would be better if the doc's say newer version NEED the switch and
leave the code as is.

Regards,
Pete


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com 
> [mailto:mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com] On Behalf 
> Of Lucas Albers
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 14:37
> To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> Subject: RE: [Mimedefang] sobig virus slipping by mcafee.
> 
> 
> 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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