Re: [Exim] Mydoom and virus signature updates

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Auteur: Stephen Gran
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Aan: exim-users
Onderwerp: Re: [Exim] Mydoom and virus signature updates
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 02:55:29PM -0600, Dan Egli said:
> Well, I know Mcafee's dailydats had it when we got hit at 10:00am local
> time (UTC-6). ClamAv probably had it shortly also, but I don't know. I
> haven't been hit with it yet. I just looked in my virusmails dir and I
> have a few copies of Gibe, one of Bagle, and one of Netsky/SomeFool.
>
> To date I don't have a MyDoom.o instance on the machine. As much as I
> respect ClamAV I'm really thinking I'm going to put the mcafee unix
> virusscan on the system again, to provide an extra layer of protection.


ClamAV is calling it Mydoom.M, I think, rather than .o - we've been
catching huge numbers of them with it since yesterday, but maybe you're
not using a recent enough version?
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