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Old DAT files on new created emergency disk?

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theom

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Feb 22, 2001
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NL
Hi,
I have McAfee Visrusscan installed on my PC (W98SE) and have the latest DAT files downloaded and installed.
After this I created an emergency disk for use on another (possibly infected) PC, but when I scanned the PC I found out that the virus definition files were out of date (2001).
How is this possible? Is this a known issue/bug? How do I get an emergency disk with the latest virus files included?
Thanks in advance.
 
Hi

The emergency disk only contains a smaller DAT needed to scan Boot Sector and memory.

McAfee will release a new tool called CleanBoot
With this utility you can create a bootable CD with the lates DAT and engine since no diskette can hold a full DAT and engine.

Cheers
AVDude
 
Thanks, this is really helpful!

Cheers, Theo
 
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