sweep 374 - virus found but no name

[Julian Field]

Have you tried the patch to sophos-autoupdate which I posted here the other
day?
Your copy of Sophos also appears to be working in German all of a sudden.
Does anyone know how Sophos is deducing the local language? (It needs to be
in English for the output parser to get it right).


At 13:36 29/09/2003, you wrote:
>hi,
>
>after an manually update from sweep 3.72 -> 3.74
>
>$ sweep -v | grep Produktversion
>Produktversion                   : 3.74
>
>MailScanner recognize the virus but not the name (gibe-f).
>
>
>a few minutes agoo with sweep 3.72 MailScan had no problems with the
>virus-name
>
>absolutely no change in MailScanner.conf !!
>
>$ rpm -q mailscanner
>mailscanner-4.22-5
>
>
>$ /usr/lib/MailScanner/sophos-wrapper /data4/doku/viren/update.exe
><snip>
> >>> Virus 'W32/Gibe-F' gefunden in Datei /data4/doku/viren/update.exe
></snip>
>
>
>because MailScan can not resolve the name the sender will be notified
>since the update.
>
>
>$ grep "Gibe" /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>Silent Viruses = HTML-IFrame Klez Yaha-E Bugbear Braid-A WinEvar Palyh
>Sobig Fizzer Gibe
>
>
>what is happened?
>
>--
>shrek-m

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