Re: [cobalt-users] Mailscanner not getting viruses all the time

[Larry Smith <lesmith@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 11 February 2004 12:25, Kim Schulz wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > Sounds like your virus definitions are not quite up to date.
> > When Mydoom first appeared we were destroying a percentage due to
> > normal rules that mailscanner applies,
> > i.e. along the lines of things like double file extensions, .pif .scr
> > attachments but the .zip ones were mainly getting past it, once the
> > definitions were up to date it killed 100% of them.
>
> it updates every night

No pun intended, but is it updating or simply telling you it ran updates.
do and ls -l against /usr/local/f-prot and see what the dates are on the .def 
files

Mine are:

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       490988 Feb  9 09:40 MACRO.DEF
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1099512 Feb 10 17:47 SIGN2.DEF
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1110975 Feb 10 17:52 SIGN.DEF

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Larry Smith
SysAd ECSIS.NET
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