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The
virus definitions F-Prot released today is what is now catching Mydoom.F, as
F-Prot has been catching them since about 3am here and I have not upgraded to
3.14c yet.
Bill
F-Prot prompted me for an upgrade of the
program when I logged in this morning (full download and install
process). I assume that this is meant to take care of the issue in not
catching Mydoom.F. Before that I was showing definitions that were last
updated on the 18th. Everyone should log onto their servers and run the
updater if they aren't immediately prompted.
If I'm correct, it also
took several days for them to fix an issue with Mimail and that required a
version upgrade.
Matt
Madscientist wrote:
At 09:32 AM 2/24/2004, you wrote:
I was
wondering if anyone else is using F-prot for their virus engine in
declude, and what they now think about it. Netsky was discovered on the
18th, and F-Prot actually had it posted on their website as being
discovered by them on the 19th. But they didn't update their definition
files to actually catch it until early this morning. This meant that
netsky ran rampant under F-Prots nose for 6 days. I feel this is
completely unacceptable, and I am going to change my virus engine this
week unless someone can tell me that there is a good reason why I
shouldn't.
Any ideas or
feedback from someone using F-Prot?
Thanks
We
recently abandoned McAfee for F-Prot. F-Prot is much more efficient and
stable on our NT test platform. Though I am not pleased with the delays you
mention, I'm also not willing to throw them out given the alternatives and
at this point I consider the delay an aberration rather than a systemic
flaw. A better strategy to dropping F-Prot, in my opinion, is to also
include alternatives - since diversity is better protection anyway and the
costs are well within reason.
My
$0.02.
_M
Pete McNeil (Madscientist)
President, MicroNeil Research
Corporation.
Chief SortMonster, www.SortMonster.com.
Vox 703-406-2016, Fax
703-406-2017
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