HELP - Viruses are not detected

Jan-Peter Koopmann Jan-Peter.Koopmann at SECEIDOS.DE
Mon Mar 10 10:33:59 GMT 2003


Hi,

> I just noticed something very strange: the
> filename.rules.conf is not obeyed and no viruses are caught
> (tested with EICAR). This is incoming and outgoing... I first
> noticed this with 4.13-3. Could this be a bug?

Just wanted to let you know we found the problem. After an upgrade from
4.12 to 4.13 I forgot to change the SystemDefs.pm in lib/MailScanner.
Therefore $global::sed pointed to /bin/sed. Under FreeBSD this must be
/usr/bin/sed. This caused the EximDiskStore to fail when reading the
message body (since it uses sed there) and passing it over to the
MIME::Parser. Therefore the message did not get extracted and since
there was nothing to scan, all virus scanners told MS that everything is
ok.

So all FreeBSD users: Always watch the SystemDefs.pm settings! :-)

Thanks to everybody who offered their help..

Regards,
  Jan-Peter




More information about the MailScanner mailing list