MailScanner not removing virus even though it was found?

Giampiero Raschetti giampiero.raschetti at POPSO.IT
Thu Jul 10 13:35:42 IST 2003


I'have just upgraded to the latest mailscan 4.22-5 from 4.13-x and
I'm registering exatly the same problem:

Jul 10 12:40:33 neutrino MailScanner[26052]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
101382 bytes
Jul 10 12:40:34 neutrino MailScanner[26052]: Virus and Content Scanning:
Starting
Jul 10 12:40:34 neutrino MailScanner[26052]: McAfee said
"/home1/spool/MailScanner/incoming/26052/h6AAeWE00411/sirc-virus.zip/SIRC32-VIRUS.EXE"

Jul 10 12:40:34 neutrino MailScanner[26052]: McAfee said "        Found the
W32/SirCam at MM virus !!!"
Jul 10 12:40:34 neutrino MailScanner[26052]:
/home1/spool/MailScanner/incoming/26052/h6AAeWE00411/sirc-virus.zip/SIRC32-VIRUS.EXE
       Found the W32/SirCam at MM virus !!!
Jul 10 12:40:34 neutrino MailScanner[26052]: Virus Scanning: McAfee found 1
infections
Jul 10 12:40:34 neutrino MailScanner[26052]: Virus Scanning: Found 1 viruses
Jul 10 12:40:34 neutrino MailScanner[26052]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages

In the configuration file there is absolutely no changes from the default
parameters.
MailScan 4.22-5 has been installed from RPM pakage and it is working using
McAfee antivirus.
Every other functionality works fine.

Need to investigate more deeply on this quest.

GR



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