AVG Support

Rick Cooper rcooper at DWFORD.COM
Thu Apr 1 21:11:27 IST 2004


I dunno if it was out or in but Outlook decided to append a .dat extention
to avg-wrapper and avg-autoupdate scripts. If it was sending just rename
them without the .dat ($%#@@#$ Microsoft)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Rick Cooper
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 3:03 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: AVG Support
>
>
> Attached are diff files to add avg support to MS as well as the
> wrapper and
> auto-update scripts. You will, of course, need to chmod 0755 the
> two scripts
> and put them in the /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner directory. It uses
> avgscan not the daemon so that need not be running for it to work (unless
> you want on-demand)
>
> I only had eicar stuff to test it with and Heuristic scan is not
> enabled by
> default. The default scan settings are -arc -ext=* so it will descend into
> subdirs and scan all files.
> If you have your stuff in non-standard places then you need to edit
> virus.scanner.conf, the avg-wrapper and avg-autoupdate scripts to point to
> the right packagedir
>
> Backup your files before applying the patches of course, add the
> auto-update
> script your cron jobs and add "avg" to your Virus Scanners = avg [other
> scanners] line in MailScanner.conf
>
> feel free to email if you have questions/problems
>
> Rick
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> > Behalf Of Quintin Giesbrecht
> > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 12:52 PM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: AVG Support
> >
> >
> > I would also volunteer to beta test.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rob Freeman [mailto:sysadmin at FLEETONE.COM]
> > Sent: April 1, 2004 11:31 AM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: AVG Support
> >
> >
> > >Do you know when MailScanner will support AVG by grisoft?
> > >www.grisfoft.com
> >
> > >Thanks
> >
> > >Quintin
> >
> > I would also be interested in the AVG virus for MailScanner and could
> > help
> > beta test it.
> >
> > Rob
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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