Small problem

[Julian Field]

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Denis Beauchemin wrote:

> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> Denis Beauchemin wrote:
>>
>>> Julian Field wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sure. Patch for SweepViruses.pm attached.
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know if it fixes the problem for you.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 27/10/04 3:54 pm, "Denis Beauchemin"
>>>> <Denis.Beauchemin at USHERBROOKE.CA>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Julian Field wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Unfortunately that one isn't easy to fix, it comes straight from
>>>>>> the virus
>>>>>> report, and I'm not sure whether I can get at the real name safely
>>>>>> from
>>>>>> there. Judging by the fact that it's also listed in upper case, I
>>>>>> suspect I
>>>>>> can't find the safe name. The lookup table will have the lower case
>>>>>> version.
>>>>>> I can't just generally force the names to lower case as that may
>>>>>> cause other
>>>>>> filename clashes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 27/10/04 1:42 pm, "Denis Beauchemin"
>>>>>> <Denis.Beauchemin at USHERBROOKE.CA>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> MS seems to forget to clean file names when a virus is detected in
>>>>>>> a ZIP
>>>>>>> file:
>>>>>>> Oct 27 07:56:05 132.210.244.90 MailScanner[12979]:
>>>>>>> /i9RBth1s025464/message.txt   .scr        Found the W32/Mabutu.a at MM
>>>>>>> virus !!!
>>>>>>> Oct 27 07:56:05 132.210.244.90 MailScanner[12979]:
>>>>>>> /i9RBth1s025464/message.zip/MESSAGE.TXT
>>>>>>> .SCR        Found the W32/Mabutu.a at MM virus !!!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is McAfee syslog output on MS 4.35.1.  The first line is OK
>>>>>>> but the
>>>>>>> second one has lots of white space...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Julian,
>>>>>
>>>>> Understood.  But what was really annoying me was the long file name
>>>>> (many spaces before the .scr).
>>>>>
>>>>> Couldn't you just sanitize this with something like s/\s+/ /g before
>>>>> using it in reports and logs?
>>>>>
>>>>> Denis
>>>>>
>>> Julian,
>>>
>>> It's not working.  I stopped and restarted MS and I still get the
>>> following in my logs (McAfee and Bitdefender output):
>>>
>>> Oct 27 12:03:28 smtpi2 MailScanner[29112]:
>>> /i9RG3KwO029166/message.zip/MESSAGE.TXT
>>> .SCR        Found the W32/Mabutu.a at MM virus !!!
>>>
>>> Oct 27 12:03:29 smtpi2 MailScanner[29112]:
>>> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/29112/./i9RG3KwO029166/message.zip=>message.txt
>>>
>>> .scr    infected: Win32.Mabutu.A at mm
>>
>>
>>
>> It wasn't the syslog output I fixed, it was the output that goes in the
>> user report. I would rather have the genuine text in the syslog, it's
>> length-limited by the syslog spec anyway.
>
>
>
> Julian,
>
> Then it is working, but it was not what I was looking for... 8-(

That's a shame. I could edit every single output parser to do the same
trick if you like.

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