Commercial virus checker failed ...

[Christopher Hicks]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Nick Phillips wrote:

> That you have two separate lists which must be kept in the same order.
> The consequences of getting it wrong might be that each scanner's
> output gets parsed by a parser intended for the other, and as a
> result, both fail to recognise the infection reports, and pass a
> message as OK.
>
> Which would be Bad.

Ah.  Why not make "Virus Scanner" comma-delimited as Julian proposed and
replace Sweep with
        Sweep Sophos = /some/path/to/wrapper
        Sweep Mcafee = /some/path/to/wrapper
        Sweep Fprot = /some/path/to/wrapper
        ...
?

> > I'd been wondering anyway, is the plan for it to run all of them
> > regardless?  Stop after one finds a virus?  What?
>
> I haven't looked at what Jules has done yet, but I'd guess that it'd
> just carry on and add all the reports that it gets one after another.

That's what I was hoping for.

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