McAfee updates

[John Price]

Hi

An earlier post about the update process with McAfee has made me realise I
may be working under false understanding. Whether I assumed it or was
told/read it somewhere I can't recall, but for ages I've worked on the basis
that when I download whatever the latest DAT file is, it contains not just
the latest update, but an accumulation of all the earlier ones as well for
that version/engine. Is that so, or do you really have to install each and
every DAT file?

Cheers

 

[David H. Lipman]

McAfee uses EXE files, a ZIP file and an incremental updates. To reduce
bandwidth, when a McAfee AV product goes to the FTP site it compares the present
DAT revision of the product to the latest version and if they are close enough,
will download the incremental updates. That is to say that if your McAfee AV
software is DAT v4275 and you perform and update, the signatures released between
v4275 and the latest will only be downloaded. If you get the ZIP file, XDAT or
SuperDAT, you get the complete package all signatures to date.

Hope this helps...

Dave


| Hi
|
| An earlier post about the update process with McAfee has made me realise I
| may be working under false understanding. Whether I assumed it or was
| told/read it somewhere I can't recall, but for ages I've worked on the basis
| that when I download whatever the latest DAT file is, it contains not just
| the latest update, but an accumulation of all the earlier ones as well for
| that version/engine. Is that so, or do you really have to install each and
| every DAT file?
|
| Cheers
|
|

 

[John Price]

Err, I think so - I think your last sentence stated what I understood as
happening - that when I download a DAT file, it contains the latest updates,
as well as the contents of all the previously released DAT files for the
programme version that I have.

So, my picture is that should i ever have to reinstall from CD, I'd only
need to download and install the very latest superdat and/or DAT files.

So, thanks Dave

 

[David H. Lipman]

Correct -- It should be the SuperDAT to make sure it is the latest DAT and ENGINE
files.

Dave

 

[John Price]

thanks for the info wrangler