Mike, Tuesday, February 24, 2004 you wrote: MV> I was wondering if anyone else is using F-prot for their virus engine in MV> declude, and what they now think about it. Netsky was discovered on the MV> 18th, and F-Prot actually had it posted on their website as being discovered MV> by them on the 19th. But they didn't update their definition files to MV> actually catch it until early this morning. This meant that netsky ran MV> rampant under F-Prots nose for 6 days. I feel this is completely MV> unacceptable, and I am going to change my virus engine this week unless MV> someone can tell me that there is a good reason why I shouldn't.
This is not our experience. Here's an excerpt form our virus reporter for the 18th. Scanner 1 is Fprot. Scanner 2 is NAI (McAfee). So on the 18th Fprot caught 39 it identified as Netsky. However, some of these were corrupted. All in all I'm happy with F-prot but I see enough difference to run 2 and might add a 3rd: > From: 02/18/2004 00:00:30 Thru 02/18/2004 23:59:36 > Log files: vir0218.log > > Scanner 1 Virus names > VBS/Haptime.F = 1 > W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] = 4 > W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (corrupted) = 1 > W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] = 1 > W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] = 1 > W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] = 5 > W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] = 39 > > Scanner 1 Days > 02/18/2004 = 52 > > Scanner 2 Virus names > VBS/[EMAIL PROTECTED] virus = 1 > W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] virus = 4 > W32/Bugbear.b.dam virus = 1 > W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] virus = 1 > W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] virus = 1 > W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] virus = 3 > W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] virus = 2 > W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] virus = 14 > W32/Sober!data trojan = 3 > > Scanner 2 Days > 02/18/2004 = 30 Terry Fritts This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html
