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

[Kevin Miller]

LOL.  A victim of your own success.

Best...

...Kevin
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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 2:01 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: --mailscanner wont scan emails with virus software
>{Scanned}
>
>
>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.
>
>--
>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.
>
>