Commercial virus checker failed ...

Mike Rylander miker at incanta.net
Wed Jan 9 15:22:41 GMT 2002


Or rather

   Sweep = f-prot, /some/path/to/wrapper
   Sweep = sophos, /another/path/to/wrapper
   Sweep = mcafee, /some/other/path/to/wrapper

On Wednesday 09 January 2002 07:21, Christopher Hicks wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> </chris>
>
> Neither sweat, nor blood, nor frustration, or lousy manuals
> nor missing parts, or wrong parts shall keep me from my task.

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Mike Rylander
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Incanta, Inc.
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