Mailscanner marking DOS Attack on 2 different servers

[Roger Jochem]

I'm using the same DAT and it is working fine here...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thom Paine" <thom at CUSTOMNETWORKS.CA>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: Mailscanner marking DOS Attack on 2 different servers


> Okay, so more investigation has finally paid off. I've only been working
on
> this for 5 hours now.
> The new DAT files from MacAfee are giving me a segmentation fault when I
run
> the command to tell me the version number.
>
> Uvscan --version
> Shows the proper number of viruses it's scanning for, but segfaults.
>
> I reinstalled uvscan and checked it, and it's okay. When I update the
DATs,
> it segfaults.
>
> Looks like this is a problem with Mcafee and I don't know how to proceed
> from here.
>
> I guess what I have to do in the meantime is set virus scanners = none and
> wait for new DAT's from Mcafee.
>
> Anyone else running this same setup? And getting segfaults from mcafee
4367
> DATs (June 16 2004)?
>
> Thanks all.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf
> Of Spicer, Kevin
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 10:15 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Mailscanner marking DOS Attack on 2 different servers
>
>
> > I have two different servers that just started developing
> > problems with
> > mailscanner marking all inbound and outbound email a denial of service
> > attack.
> >
> > I've been searching the archives trying to figure out what
> > could be wrong,
> > but can't really find anything. It seems that maybe it's
> > caused by a timeout
> > on dns, but nothing has changed on these two servers in many weeks.
> >
> > Where else could I start troubleshooting this?
>
> It may be that your virus scanner has packed up.
>
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