AVG Support

[Rick Cooper]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 3:18 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: AVG Support
>
>
> 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!
>

I dunno about cool but you are welcome and use it if you want it.
Speaking of patches what about that patch that changes the administrative
notice subject and first line from "Virus detected" to what ever the actual
problem(s) were... I wanted to do that for a looong time I just needed
someone else to push the button.

Rick

> :-)
>
> 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
> > >
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