AVG Support

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Apr 1 21:18:21 IST 2004


I like it when this happens. I put off a job I don't have time for, and
some cool dude writes it for me!
Thanks!

:-)

At 21:02 01/04/2004, you wrote:
>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
> >
> > --
> > This message has been scanned for viruses and
> > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
> > believed to be clean.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

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