SV: SV: SV: SV: Changing konfiguration....... Warning!!

[Anders Andersson, IT]

> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> Skickat: den 13 juli 2002 16:36
> Till: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Ämne: Re: SV: SV: SV: Changing konfiguration....... Warning!!
> 
> 
> Warning!
> 
> Sorry, but this patch is fundamentally broken.
> Messages are handled in batches, and in your code the 
> commercial virus 
> checker is called
>          if scanning switched on
>          and NoScanOnFile = off
>          and number of infections found by filename.rules for 
> whole batch 
> of messages = 0
> So if *any* of the messages were caught by filename.rules.conf, the 
> expression above will be false and hence the commercial 
> checkers will not 
> be called for any message in the batch.
> 
> So if you get 5 messages in a batch, and 1 of them triggers a 
> filename.rules.conf trap, then *none* of them will be scanned 
> for viruses!
> 
> As a result viruses will get through MailScanner whenever 
> your server is 
> put under any significant load.

Hmm, so I guess I have to live how it works for now then and
wait until you want to make that change.
Sometimes its good to be a newbie.

> 
> At 15:19 09/07/2002, you wrote:
> >Hi
> >I havent had time to try it yet.....I was gona mail back and ask
> >you how to apply it but been to busy at work
> >As I said, Im newbie at unix so I really need a howto aproach =)
> >
> >Im still doing some fine fixing on mailscann but I have to
> >put my normal work in prority  =)
> >
> >/Anders
> >
> > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> > > Från: tal at MUSICGENOME.COM [mailto:tal at MUSICGENOME.COM]
> > > Skickat: den 9 juli 2002 16:15
> > > Till: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > Ämne: Re: SV: SV: Changing konfiguration.......
> > >
> > >
> > > Security warning. Details in WARNING.TXT about the 
> possible problem.
> > > 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > btw... did that patch work properly, or does it need fixing?
> > > --
> > > Tal Kelrich
> > >
> > > PGP Fingerprint: 3EDF FCC5 60BB 4729 AB2F  CAE6 FEC1 9AAC 
> 12B9 AA69
> > > PGP key-id: 12B9AA69
> > >
> > >
> 
> --
> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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>