Error in Anti-Virus Software Recognition?

[Antony Stone]

On Wednesday 10 September 2003 3:58 pm, Evert Ford wrote:

> When I installed the current version of MailScanner, I started seeing the
> following in my mail log hourly:
>
> Sep 10 02:01:01 myComputer update.virus.scanners: Found bitdefender
> installed
> Sep 10 02:01:01 myComputer update.virus.scanners: Found clamav installed
> Sep 10 02:01:03 myComputer update.virus.scanners: Found f-prot installed
> Sep 10 02:01:39 myComputer update.virus.scanners: Found panda installed
> Sep 10 02:01:39 myComputer update.virus.scanners: Found rav installed
>
> However, I only have f-prot and clamav installed, and should only be
> getting updates for those two.  Everything seems to be working, just says
> it's getting updates for tools i don't have installed.

Can you check to see if you have any/all of the following *executable* files
on your system?

/usr/bin/pavcl
/usr/local/bd7/shared/bdc
/usr/local/bin/clamscan
/usr/local/f-prot/f-prot
/usr/local/rav8/bin/ravav

I know it seems unlikely you'd have software you didn't know about, but the
autoupdate script works by checking to see if the A-V executable exists and
is executable, and if it finds it, attempts an update.   I'd start by
checking your machine to see if it's really finding something.

Antony.

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