Silent viruses are silent in logs as well?

[Antony Stone]

Hi all (and Julian in particular :)  )

Looking through my syslog files today I found something I think is strange,
and I'm not sure whether it qualifies as a bug or a feature of MailScanner :)

I use Clam (+ others) for antivirus scanning, and it says "FOUND" whenever a
virus is detected.

I grepped my syslog messages file for "FOUND" and got 27 entries for today.

Then I grepped for the MailScanner message "Virus Scanning: Found" and got 2
responses (both found only 1 virus).

It turns out the 2 occurrences of "Virus Scanning: Found 1 viruses" were for
viruses which aren't in my "Silent" list - all the other Clam messages were
for Sobig, which is listed as silent.

Is it correct that a silent virus isn't even reported as Found in the syslogs?

I think I'd prefer it if my syslogs told me everything my server had found,
even if it doesn't try to bounce back to the (false) sender...

Regards,

Antony.

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