--mailscanner wont scan emails with virus software {Scanned}

[Matt Lowe]

ok, i'll eat humble pie :)
after changing smtp servers from my external box, i managed to send the eicar virus and had it reconised by the mail server in question :)

I had tryed sending the eicars a while ago, and it didnt apear to scan the email (i was only watching the logs) but i have just relised that my local mailscanner had already sripped the eicars from the email on its way out of my server :(

So panic over, it apears to be scanning ok :)

thanks for your prompt reply

Matt Lowe
www.mlsis.co.uk
ms at mlsis.co.uk


Kevin Miller <Kevin_Miller at CI.JUNEAU.AK.US> wrote ..
> Just for grins, can you send an eicar test pattern (see www.eicar.com)
> to
> yourself from outside the system?  The logs notwithstanding, if the scanner
> is running it should catch it.  Do you actually have RAV and f-prot also
> installed?
>
> ...Kevin
> -------------------
> Kevin Miller                Registered Linux User No: 307357
> CBJ MIS Dept.               Network Systems Administrator, Mail
> Administrator
> 155 South Seward Street     ph: (907) 586-0242
> Juneau, Alaska 99801        fax: (907 586-4500
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Matt Lowe [mailto:ms at MLSIS.CO.UK]
> >Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:18 PM
> >To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> >Subject: --mailscanner wont scan emails with virus software {Scanned}
> >
> >
> >-----
> >'HELP!'
> >I have Mailscanner 4.23-11 installed on a server with postfix.
> >
> >I have installed mcafee,f-prot and rav virus scanning
> >software, but any emails that come into the mail server, are
> >NOT being scanned :(
> >The subject line is being changed to include the 'scaned' tag,
> >and mailscanner rejects filenames etc corectly, but there is
> >no virus scanning happening :(
> >I can tell the virus software isnt kicking in, because its a
> >trial version of mcafee, and on all my other systems when an
> >email is scanned, mcafee puts a load of junk in the log files
> >saying that it is a trial version, this isnt happening on my
> >new server.
> >
> >my mailscanner.conf file has the following in it :-
> >%report-dir% = /etc/MailScanner/reports/en
> >%etc-dir% = /etc/MailScanner
>
> snip
>
> >
>
> --
> This message has been scanned for viruses and
> dangerous content by the
> www.ms.mlsis.co.uk MailScanner, and is
> believed to be clean.
> Please contact ms at ms.mlsis.co.uk for support.

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This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by the
www.ms.mlsis.co.uk MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.
Please contact ms at ms.mlsis.co.uk for support.