Whoa!! "Virus Scan failed" What?

[Kevin Spicer]

On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 18:34, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

>Sep 11 12:40:07 basalt <22>MailScanner[17224]: ERROR:: Virus scan
>failed
>(514):: ./h8BGdlAn026143/.pdf

This has been discussed in the last few days, there are certain pdfs
Sophos has problems with.

>Whoa...  The virus scan failed, so the email got delivered?  This seems
>like a Bad Thing (tm).

It might also seem like a bad thing if a regular update screwed your
scanner and so all mail was rejected?
You're running clam too, which presumably didn't fail and returned a
clean result?  I think the answer is to run multiple scanners, but I'd
be interested in knowing the logic here.  We know that any scanner finds
a virus the mail is 'infected', but presumably if one fails to scan but
the other one doesn't find anything it assumes clean?  That seems
sensible to me.




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