HELP - Viruses are not detected

Steve Thomas lists at STHOMAS.NET
Sat Mar 8 18:03:05 GMT 2003


On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 06:45:31PM +0100, Jan-Peter Koopmann is rumored to have said:
>
> > First thing, check to see whether or not you're getting any
> > X-MailScanner headers in messages that get delivered.
>
> I am. Spam check is working as well.

Then you're having a different problem than I was seeing. I was hoping that you weren't, then I'd be able to help much more.. :\

> > If you are, the mail's getting scanned and you have a problem
> > with your virus scanner or something.
>
> I opt for "or something". :-) The virus scanners are obviously called.
> Moreover the filename.rules.conf is ignored as well which should not
> have anything to do with the virus scanners.

The only thing I can think of is permissions. Does your log file show anything out of the ordinary? I'm fairly new to MS (only been using it for a couple of weeks), so I doubt I'll be much help since you're experiencing something different than what I was seeing.

One thing you could check is the wrapper for your virus scanner. I use sophos, and had to change the paths in the wrapper for it. If you can call <scanner>-wrapper and successfully catch eicar, then it's working OK. Other than that, I don't think I'll be of much help..

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