not logging ">>> Virus", only "Found 1 viruses"

Daniel Bird dbird at SGHMS.AC.UK
Wed Jul 31 14:38:15 IST 2002


Dear All,
I am having the same problem, any ideas????

regards

Dan

On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 16:48:37 -0500, Paul Rossman <pdr at EVANSTON.FLUENT.COM>
wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
>I'm going crazy trying to figure out why I'm not getting log reports for
>detected viruses.... To be more specific, I'm am getting these:
>
>Jun  3 16:38:18 glacier mailscanner[17266]: Found 1 viruses in messages
>g53Lbt217631
>
>but not these types:
>
>May 28 21:42:53 quicksilver.ukc.ac.uk mailscanner[27921]: >>> Virus
>'W32/Klez-H' found in file ./17Cnnb-0001PL-00/install.exe
>
>I've looked every where for the keywords "found in" and ">>>" but to no
>relevant success. Looked at the src, in the howto/faq, in my mail archives
>since Jan 2002, and in the online mailing list archives.
>
>I'm using Mcafee:
>
>Virus Scan for Linux v4.16.0
>Copyright (c) 1992-2001 Networks Associates Technology Inc. All rights
reserved.
>(408) 988-3832  LICENSED COPY - Nov 13 2001
>
>Scan engine v4.1.60 for Linux.
>Virus data file v4205 created May 29 2002
>Scanning for 60684 viruses, trojans and variants.
>
>Is that type of specific virus report to syslog a result of the virus
scanner
>(some thing other than mcafee?).
>
>I've included my syslog info below just in case.
>
>Any help would be much appreciated.
>
>Thanks!
>-paul
>
>-------
>
>syslog.conf file on mailserver contains:
>
>##
>## Everything to loghost
>##
>*.* @loghost
>
>-------
>
>syslog.conf file on loghost server contains the following line for mail:
>
>mail.warning;mail.emerg;mail.alert;mail.crit;mail.info;mail.err;mail.notice
;mail.debug;mail.*
>                  /var/log/maillog
>
>-------



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