Monday February 09 2004 21:12, you wrote to me:

 CC> On 2/9/2004 9:07 PM, DAN EGLI wrote to CHRIS CRANFORD

 CC> -> The latest engine for Mcafee can be had on Janis's web site. Go to
 CC> -> filegate.net and in the antivirus section find two files. One is
 CC> the
 CC> -> whole scanning package, the other is an engine only update. Names
 CC> -> escape me but they are described well enough that a few mins of
 CC> -> searching should find them.

 CC> Ok, I went to filegate.net and downloaded cmd450e.zip.  I unzipped
 CC> this file and ran 'SCAN.EXE /?'.  It ran perfectly.  I then downloaded
 CC> the virus update file dat4nai.zip and applied it.

 CC> After doing this I reran SCAN.EXE and it says:

 CC> The instruction at 0x007800bc referenced memory at 0x82ff1c00.
 CC> The memory could not be read.

 CC> Anyways, I delete everything and unzip the cmd450e.zip file again and
 CC> it runs without the exception so either I got the wrong engine or I'm
 CC> applying the wrong dat files to this engine.

 CC> Can you help me clarify?

You unzip the CMD file, then unzip the UPDATE (4260eng.zip if memory
serves) THEN unzip the new datafiles. The 4.50 engine does not read 426x
series datafiles corrrectly. The 4260eng contains updated EXEs and DLLs
that fix that issue.

--- Dan
Dan
Moderator BBS_SURVIVAL

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