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Date:	Mon, 5 Aug 2002 09:52:43 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: McAfee site

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Jack Huffman wrote:

> I have a CD from a boxed version of Viruscan 4.1.02; it was installed on a
> box I have since replaced. Soooo-I am interested in downloading 4.1.60
> and the current dat files.

In terms of the program shell that operates the engine, this is probably all you need. (In sharp contrast to the shell for their Win-32 product, which I *had
to upgrade* to at least the 5.1.5 level, or it would no longer function properly.) They probably had far less regular updates to this component on the OS/2
side. In fact, I am running the McAfee 4.0.2 shell with the 4.1.60 engine, and current issue DATfiles, so that one should certainly work for you. I actually
prefer the look and workings of the simpler, older shells. The later Win-32 ones have a jazzed up interface with sound fx, and may require use of the "live
update" feature; they often choke on updates delivered via standalone downloads, applied later.

>> But I could not find ant of them on the McAfee.com site even after
>> clicking on home user. Did I go to the URL?
>>
>> If I didn't, will you please tell me how to find them on the McAfee site?
>

I have long had the ftp site bookmarks that Steven gave you, which come in handy at times when the regular sites have heavy traffic. For some reason, when
that happens, I can always get to the ftp ones, even though they don't offer the speediest d/l's, and you have to recognize what you want by filename alone.
Anyway, their site sections don't have the most accessible navigation. I have stumbled across some obscure rooms in the basement. For the section you were
originally looking for, try

http://www.nai.com/naicommon/download/dats/find.asp

which should take you straight to the DATs and engines of interest. Remember: ****XDAT is the Win-version updates (unless you get a "SUPERDAT" file -- if
they still offer these -- that also updated the engine stuff for their Win product); the one we want, for the DATfiles, is the plain old Zipfile archive. I
don't think any of the other archives there are ZIPs, so they should be hard to miss. The engines are probably self-extracting archives. I use ZTree to
manually replace these components.

Jordan

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