AntiVir

[Julian Field]

At 17:52 02/05/2004, you wrote:
>MailScanner supports the AntiVir scanner and so far, for me, it's worked
>perfectly - except for one incident where a program called "prelink" kept
>modifying the antivir executable. I fixed that by uninstalling the prelink
>rpm from my Fedora Core 1 machine and reinstalling AntiVir.
>
>I noticed there was a separate AntiVir for Workstations, which I tried
>installing after removing the server version. It didn't work from within
>MailScanner (didn't show up on the logs, didn't pick up EICAR), although
>update_virus_scanners and the command line wrapper worked perfectly.
>
>Does this mean MailScanner only works with AntiVir "server edition", or am
>I missing something else?

Can you put an eicar.com in the current directory and run
/usr/lib/MailScanner/antivir-wrapper /usr/lib/AntiVir .
for each of the 2 editions and see if there is any difference in the output?
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Julian Field
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