Small problem

[Julian Field]

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Julian Field wrote:

> 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.

Attached is a new SweepViruses.pm. Let me know how you get on.

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