Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 09:43:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> To: Jeff Roberts <jroberts@ashland.edu> Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, Chris Coleman <chris@bb.cc.wa.us> Subject: Re: mcAffee Anti Virus Message-ID: <Pine.FBS.3.93.970416093730.22015A-100000@dingo.its.enc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OS2.3.95.970415231756.70B-100000@warp4>
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On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Jeff Roberts wrote:
>
> > Chris Coleman <chris@bb.cc.wa.us> on Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 said:
> >
> > > I was checking out the Anti-virus programs for FreeBSD by McAffee
> > > and ran it on my system. It showed that I had SEVERAL files infected with
> > > a SYSLOCK virus. Any one know about this stuff?
> > >
> > > Is it worth buying, and is SYSLOCK a real threat?
>
>
> On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Charles Owens wrote:
> > Chris,
> >
> > I tried out the Mcafee ViruScan for FreeBSD ("uvscan") and had the same
> > results. I scanned a large collection of PC files and a hundred or so
> > were reported to have this virus. Given that many of the files were GIFs
> > and other pure data formats I was skeptical of the results.
> >
> > So... I spend an hour or so chatting to a nice guy at Mcafee tech support.
> > I mailed him a supposedly infected file (a Powerpoint file) and he scanned
> > it with his Linux and DOS versions of VirusScan and found no sign of
> > infection. He sent the info off to development so the bug can be fixed.
>
>
> (Jeff)
>
> What version # is this? The 1.01E on their Web site now, or an earlier
> release?
Yes, 1.01E. This is an older scanning engine, but it does work with their
up-to-date virus data files. I asked the McAfee tech about this and he
said that there'd be newer versions at some point, but that Unix
development takes a back seat to Windows.
The guy I spoke with handles all of the tech support for all Unix versions
of VirusScan. He said that I was the _only_ person to ever call about the
FreeBSD version... there have only been a handful of calls about the Linux
version.
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