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From: mike at sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
Subject: DANGER: potentially broken f-prot updates

f-prot fixed it as of 20:00 GMT and confirmed to me via email that the root 
of the problem was found and corrected!

         ---Mike

At 03:03 PM 25/09/2003, Mike Tancsa wrote:

>I have already contacted the vendor, but be careful about your f-prot 
>updates today. It looks like they put an old def file from May 26th on 
>their ftp site. The UNIX update script will happily fetch and install this.
>
>avscan2# nslookup -type=ns f-prot.com
>Server:  resolver1.sentex.ca
>Address:  64.7.128.99
>
>Non-authoritative answer:
>f-prot.com      nameserver = ns1.linanet.is
>f-prot.com      nameserver = skjalda.frisk-software.com
>f-prot.com      nameserver = bukolla.frisk-software.com
>f-prot.com      nameserver = baula.frisk-software.com
>
>Authoritative answers can be found from:
>ns1.linanet.is  internet address = 62.145.128.2
>skjalda.frisk-software.com      internet address = 213.220.100.2
>bukolla.frisk-software.com      internet address = 213.220.100.1
>baula.frisk-software.com        internet address = 213.220.100.3
>avscan2#
>avscan2# host ftp.f-prot.com 213.220.100.2
>Using domain server 213.220.100.2:
>
>ftp.f-prot.com has address 204.118.23.102
>ftp.f-prot.com has address 204.118.23.103
>ftp.f-prot.com has address 204.118.23.101
>avscan2# fetch ftp://204.118.23.102/pub/fp-def.zip
>Receiving fp-def.zip (1180204 bytes): 100%
>1180204 bytes transferred in 1.2 seconds (997.57 kBps)
>avscan2# unzip -v fp-def.zip
>Archive:  fp-def.zip
>  Length   Method    Size  Ratio   Date   Time   CRC-32    Name
>--------  ------  ------- -----   ----   ----   ------    ----
>      295  Defl:N      272   8%  09-25-03 16:57  e98c5705  SIGN.ASC
>  1054178  Defl:N   675410  36%  05-26-03 16:01  415522b4  SIGN.DEF
>      295  Defl:N      272   8%  09-25-03 16:57  c21dad71  SIGN2.ASC
>   733487  Defl:N   503856  31%  05-26-03 13:20  9664dc36  SIGN2.DEF
>--------          -------  ---                            -------
>  1788255          1179810  34%                            4 files
>avscan2# md5 fp-def.zip
>MD5 (fp-def.zip) = ffbe865dbfbf6721f59abdad3309c8ad
>avscan2#
>
>It really is from the 26th.. no mimail, no swen, noteven sobig.f :-(
>
>         ---Mike
>
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