Ian Bruseker said:

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> On Wednesday 05 March 2003 11:19 am, Trevor Lauder wrote:
>> I should also mention that the version of McAfee for Linux is the
>> command
>> line scanner, not the McAfee Webshield SMTP product you are using.
>> Postfix passes the email to Amavis which runs it through McAfee's
>> command
>> line scanner and SpamAssassin, once Amavis is done with it, it passes it
>> back to Postfix.
>>
> I'm cool with having it work this way.  F-Prot works the same way.  In
> fact,
> I've also been reading up on SpamAssassin, as it seems like something I
> might
> want to add in to the whole email process here.
>
> I've just done some poking around the McAfee site and found their command
> line
> scanner.  They aren't exactly going out of their way to advertise it.  :-)
> (Maybe I'm being too Windows-minded and expecting them to mention
> something
> about it on their front page.  Silly me.)  Ok, let me ask this - is it

Yeah, they don't really push it to hard on the website, that is for sure :)

> being
> kept current?  I mean, sure, there are new dats every week, but does it
> seem
> like NAI has a commitment to the product? (If you know, of course - I
> don't
> expect you to have a personal insight into NAI's business plans or
> anything.
> ;-)  )  I've been using McAfee for years, so the familiarity is nice, but
> I'm
> only sticking with them if they can give me what I want.
>

I'd love to tell you they have a strong commitment to the product, however
I really don't know.  I haven't ever seen upgrades to the command line
scanner.  McAfee actually releases new DATs everyday, the windows clients
are only configured to download the weekly/bi-weekly ones.  The URL for
the daily DAT file is
http://download.nai.com/products/mcafee-avert/daily_dats/DAILYDAT.ZIP

I just run a Perl script through cron everyday that pulls that file down
and extracts it to the right location.  It also runs the command line to
make sure the DATs weren't corrupt.

> Ian
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