KavDaemonClient (Was Re: F-Secure 4.50 not supported)

[Julian Field]

At 13:18 01/05/2003, you wrote:
>Kt, 2003-05-01 12:57, Julian Field wrote:
>
> > Using the AvpDaemonClient in "Sample1" I can scan for viruses with just a
> > command line of
> > AvpDaemonClient .
> >
> > So that you can download and run my copy, I have tar-ed up the whole
> > /opt/AVP directory (except the licence key file) and put it at
> > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~jkf/WorkingKav.tgz
> >
> > I would be interested to see whether this setup works for you.
>
>I found why it works for you and not for me. Earlier I compiled sample
>clients by just running Makefile.def. Now I compiled by running
>configure first, and AvpDaemonClient from Sample1 started to find
>viruses. It has one problem though - it sends files for scanning one by
>one (I see it from /var/log/kavscan.rpt), while other clients just send
>directory. But I think we can live with that for now.
>
>Please apply the following diff:
>
>--- kavdaemonclient-wrapper.orig        Fri Apr  4 13:45:50 2003
>+++ kavdaemonclient-wrapper     Thu May  1 15:15:18 2003
>@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
>
>  # kavdaemonclient-wrapper --   invoke Kaspersky Daemon client for use
>with
>  #                      mailscanner
>-# It uses AvpDaemonClient from /opt/AVP/DaemonClients/Sample
>-# or AvpTeamDream from /opt/AVP/DaemonClients/Sample2
>+# It uses AvpDaemonClient from /opt/AVP/DaemonClients/Sample1
>+# You should compile it by running ./configure in
>/opt/AVP/DaemonClients.
>  #
>  #   MailScanner - SMTP E-Mail Virus Scanner
>  #   Copyright (C) 2001  Julian Field
>@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@
>
>  PackageDir=/usr/local/bin
>  Scanner=AvpDaemonClient
>-#Scanner=AvpTeamDream
>
>  ScanOptions=""
>
>But the same problem remains - instead of VirusWarning.txt there is
>still eicar.co attached. Is it a known problem and is it fixed in newest
>betas?

I have just tested it with a message containing eicar.com and eicar.zip
(which in turn contains a second copy of eicar.com) and it successfully
spotted and removed both attachments.

Please give the latest beta a go with 1 or 2 messages and check you agree.
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