virex 7.2 and fink don’t play well together

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2003-02-07: DO NOT INSTALL VIREX 7.2-

The Virex 7.2 package, currently being distributed free to all .Mac members, has a serious conflict with Fink. Fink users should not install Virex 7.2 under any circumstances. Installing it after Fink is installed will damage your Fink installation; installing it prior to Fink will make it impossible to install Fink without damaging Virex.

The details are available here. It seems the folks at McAfee used fink-managed tools to build Virex and in the process made a lot of idiotic assumptions.

Of course, I made my own idiotic assumption when I installed Virex yesterday, assuming they had tested this stuff before releasing it, or at least been on the fink mailing lists.