[Mimedefang] Question about Virus Scanners

[Steffen Kaiser]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:

> However, I haven't found much issues with Beagle/Bagle, etc. since I
> switched to using File::Archive that searches for bad_exts and blocks them.
> If the defs don't get them, the zip scanning has been.
>
> Instructions on how I installed McAfee:
> http://www.peregrinehw.com/downloads/MIMEDefang/INSTALL-MCAFEE

Actually I'm surprised. I had installed the command line scanner, too, a 
while back, but it was slow. And it seemed to consume lots of resources 
in memory.

I had ordered the scanners like so:

first File::Scan(), then McAfee

and McAfee _never_ found a virus! It did, when I reversed the processing 
order, so I'm certain the scanner and stuff were working.

Do you catch virii with McAfee, that slipped through the other scanners?

Bye,

-- 
Steffen Kaiser