F-Secure

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Oct 22 15:14:21 IST 2002


At 15:04 22/10/2002, you wrote:
>On Martedì, ott 22, 2002, at 15:44 Europe/Rome, Julian Field wrote:
>
>>At 14:20 22/10/2002, you wrote:
>>>I recently decided to switch from my amavis-based mail system to
>>>mailscanner, most of all for the anti-spam features.
>>>Anyway I'm not able to use f-secure antivirus software; I downloaded 30
>>>minutes ago the latest release, but it still doesn't work - BTW, I
>>>tried to change the Minimum Code Status to alpha, beta and unsupported,
>>>but with no results...any suggestions?
>>
>>What errors are you getting? Does the f-secure-wrapper work? What version
>>of MailScanner are you using? Tar or RPM distribution?
>>--
>
>
>The f-secure-wrapper works (reports F-secure  R.4.15 build 4370):
>MailScanner I use is 4.01.-6, RPM distribution;
>
>When I send an eicar test, I get on stdout a FATAL: Encountered code that 
>does not meet acceptable stability at 
>/usr/lib/MailScanner/mailScanner/SweepViruses.pm line 1241; this at the 
>end of a series of "Scanner "x" (x stands for panda, f-prot, kaspersky 
>etc, which BTW are not enabled in MailScanner.conf) scanning code status 4 
>at /usr/lib/MailScanner/mailScanner/SweepViruses.pm line 1239.

I've just cleaned up this error message quite a bit. At the end of it, 
there's a URL of the web page you need to read that will explain about the 
very last setting in the conf file and what you need to set it to. To save 
you hunting for it, you need to read
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/codestatus.shtml
-- 
Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ




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