[Mimedefang] New .zip virus?

[Rudolph Pereira]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:42:58PM -0500, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
> > > " --noboot --mime --secure --allole $path 2>&1", "Found");"
> 
> > Should MD 2.40 have this modification in it?
> > Note: Older versions of uvscan do not appear to support this switch.
> 
> Absolutely!  What's the point of running an outdated virus scanner?  It's
> pointless therefore supporting anything but the latest greatest is
> pointless.
It's actually the definitions a virus scanner has, rather than the
utilities that use them, that normally matter. Someone may be using an
older version of a commandline tool that doesn't support certain options
but it may (assuming the tool <-> library/definitions api is stable enough)
be able to use the latest virus defs.