Infected message delivered

Vladimir M Costa cpd at UNIVAP.BR
Wed Aug 11 21:48:02 IST 2004


Hi Julian,


    This patch work fine, solve all problem with AVG scanning and
system report.

Thanks,


Vladimir Costa


> Please try this patch to SweepViruses.pm:
>
> -----SNIP-----
> --- SweepViruses.pm.old    2004-08-05 16:25:35.000000000 +0100
> +++ SweepViruses.pm     2004-08-11 14:00:25.000000000 +0100
> @@ -2474,6 +2474,9 @@
>    #./1B978O-0000g2-Iq/eicar.com  Virus identified  EICAR_Test (+2)
>    #./1B978O-0000g2-Iq/eicar.zip:\eicar.com  Virus identified
> EICAR_Test (+2)
>
> +  # Remove all the duff carriage-returns from the line
> +  $line =~ s/[\r\n]//g;
> +
>    #print STDERR "Line: $line\n";
>    return 0 unless $line =~ /Virus identified  (.+)$/;
>
> -----SNIP-----
>
> Let me know if that helps. I need to get a new version of Antivir to work
> on this.
>
> At 13:26 11/08/2004, you wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I am using MailScanner (currently 4.32.5-1) with AVG Antivirus (and
>> Bitdefender as second antivirus). All was good, but now, when only AVG
>> indetifies virus (Bitdefender not), Mailscanner will pass message as
>> uninfected to recipient.
>>
>> Fragment of maillog:
>> -------------------
>> Aug 11 14:10:28 server MailScanner[3547]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
>> 1479 bytes
>> Aug 11 14:10:28 server MailScanner[3547]: Spam Checks: Starting
>> Aug 11 14:10:30 server MailScanner[3547]: Virus and Content Scanning:
>> Starting
>> Aug 11 14:10:31 server MailScanner[3547]:
>> ^M^M^M^M^M^M^M./i7BCALN04049/msg-3547-3.bin  Virus identified  EICAR_Test
>> (+6)
>> Aug 11 14:10:31 server MailScanner[3547]: Virus Scanning: Avg found 1
>> infections
>> Aug 11 14:10:32 server MailScanner[3547]: Uninfected: Delivered 1
>> messages
>> --------------------
>>
>> I suppose, that it is connected with "^M" problem in path (as written in
>> another message). But virus passing through MailScanner is alarming.
>>
>> What to do with this?
>>
>> With Regards
>> Pavel Zichovsky (zichovsky at trul.cz)
>>
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>
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>
> PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
>

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