Our mail virus scanners check for new McAffee DAT updates quite frequently. However, when there is a new virus outbreak, you'll probably find that the production DAT files available won't catch it. McAffee has "beta" dat files available, and we typically use these in these instances.
As "afsadmin", do the following:
# cd /afs/.umbc.edu/sun4x_58/usr/av/lib
# wget http://download.nai.com/products/mcafee-avert/beta_packages/unix_betadat.tar
note, that if there are other "beta dat" tar files in your directory, there'll be a number tacked to the end of the tar (e.g. unix_betadat.tar.2), so untar the appropriate file in the next step
# tar -xvf unix_betadat.tar
# vos release sun4x_58.av
That's it.
Comments (2)
Hi:-)
I am happy that U seem to have found a soluton for updating AcAfee VirusScan with the Beta.-Dats as I have first to manually download them,then to unzip and then to paste them.
Question:How do I have to apply the Command that the VirusScan will update automatically itself with th Beta-DATS as I am running VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i....)
Any advice will being appreciated:-)
Posted by Felix Maximilian | April 3, 2006 11:15 AM
Posted on April 3, 2006 11:15
I wouldn't know -- we were running it under UNIX, and all we had to do was put the new .dat file in the right place. We've since abandoned McCrappy and moved to using ClamAV on our mail servers -- it actually performs much better, it's 100% free, and they get signatures out a lot faster ;)
Posted by Robert Banz | April 4, 2006 9:29 AM
Posted on April 4, 2006 09:29