what's this VC noise?

[Julian Field]

At 20:07 12/09/2002, you wrote:
>Can anyone tell me why noise like this appears on the virtual console
>where I started mailscanner? It doesn't appear to be actually waiting for
>the ([Y]es/[N]o/[A]ll).

It's noise from Sophos. I've tried stopping it, but it looks like they
output to /dev/tty or somewhere like that, which is pretty difficult to
stop happening.

># Proceed with disinfection of
>./g8C3OFpc026394/periodd.com ([Y]es/[N]o/[A]ll) ?Proceed with disinfection
>of ./g8C3RHpc026605/talent.com ([Y]es/[N]o/[A]ll) ?Proceed with
>disinfection of ./g8C3bSpc027353/continue.com ([Y]es/[N]o/[A]ll) ?

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