From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 16 06:36:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA27053 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 06:36:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (itsdsv1.enc.edu [207.95.42.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA27046 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 06:36:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dingo.its.enc.edu (dingo.its.enc.edu [207.95.222.250]) by itsdsv1.enc.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA03363; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 09:38:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 09:43:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens X-Sender: owensc@dingo.its.enc.edu To: Jeff Roberts cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, Chris Coleman Subject: Re: mcAffee Anti Virus In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Jeff Roberts wrote: > > > Chris Coleman 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. --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles N. Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu http://www.enc.edu/~owensc Network & Systems Administrator Information Technology Services "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's Eastern Nazarene College best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx -------------------------------------------------------------------------