ZIP File problem

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Oct 19 18:46:45 IST 2004


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 From the URL you gave, which link do I need to click on? Bit of a long
time since I did any German, and Google makes a complete mess of it.

At 18:31 19/10/2004, you wrote:
>On Tuesday, October 19, 2004 6:54 PM MailScanner mailing list wrote:
>
> > Both.
> > For filename and filetype rules.conf files, MailScanner does
> > it if you have set "Maximum Archive Depth" to something other than 0.
> > For virus-scanning it's down to the virus scanners.
>
>Thought so. Strange thing: The VirusWarning message said only this:
>
>At Tue Oct 19 19:28:41 2004 the virus scanner said:
>    MailScanner: Executable DOS/Windows programs are dangerous in email
>(eicar.com)
>
>
>
>But the logfile shows that eicar _was_ detected and everything is fine:
>
>Oct 19 19:28:39 proxy MailScanner[23721]:
>[./1CJxmi-0008ip-GS/eicar_g0.zip] eicar.com: Infected: EICAR_Test_File
>[Libra]
>Oct 19 19:28:39 proxy MailScanner[23721]: Virus Scanning: F-Secure found
>virus EICAR_Test_File
>Oct 19 19:28:39 proxy MailScanner[23721]:
>[./1CJxmi-0008ip-GS/eicar_g0.zip] eicar.com: Infected: EICAR Test File
>[Orion]
>Oct 19 19:28:39 proxy MailScanner[23721]: Virus Scanning: F-Secure found
>virus EICAR Test File
>Oct 19 19:28:39 proxy MailScanner[23721]:
>[./1CJxmi-0008ip-GS/eicar_g0.zip] eicar.com: Infected: EICAR-Test-File
>[AVP]
>Oct 19 19:28:39 proxy MailScanner[23721]: Virus Scanning: F-Secure found
>virus EICAR-Test-File
>Oct 19 19:28:39 proxy MailScanner[23721]: Scan ended at Tue Oct 19
>19:28:39 2004
>Oct 19 19:28:39 proxy MailScanner[23721]: 5 files scanned
>Oct 19 19:28:39 proxy MailScanner[23721]: 1 file infected
>Oct 19 19:28:39 proxy MailScanner[23721]: Virus Scanning: F-Secure found
>1 infections
>Oct 19 19:28:40 proxy MailScanner[23721]:
>/1CJxmi-0008ip-GS/eicar_g0.zip/EICAR.COM        Found: EICAR test file
>NOT a virus.
>Oct 19 19:28:40 proxy MailScanner[23721]: Virus Scanning: McAfee found 1
>infections
>Oct 19 19:28:40 proxy MailScanner[23721]:
>/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/23721/./1CJxmi-0008ip-GS/eicar_g0.zip:
>Eicar-Test-Signature FOUND
>Oct 19 19:28:40 proxy MailScanner[23721]: Virus Scanning: ClamAV found 1
>infections
>Oct 19 19:28:40 proxy MailScanner[23721]: ALERT: [Eicar-Test-Signature
>virus] ./1CJxmi-0008ip-GS/eicar_g0.zip -->
>  eicar.com <<< Contains code of the Eicar-Test-Signature virus
>
>
>Parsing problems?
>
>Regards,
>   JP
>
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