kaspersky 5.5 Virusscan <Solved>

Dan lists at NORCOMCABLE.CA
Thu Aug 18 12:20:04 IST 2005


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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: August 18, 2005 3:23 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: kaspersky 5.5 Virusscan <Solved>
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> Can one or two people using Kaspersky verify and confirm this 
> change please?
> 
> And Nerijus, please can you add your bit to the wiki.
> 
> On 18 Aug 2005, at 00:11, Nerijus Baliunas wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 09:40:45 +0100 Julian Field 
> > <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>> I finally got MS work together with Kaspersky 5.5.
> >>> First I had to change some access rights for the kaspersky 
> >>> installation, so user postfix could call some subprogramms of 
> >>> kaspersky.
> >>>
> >
> > This should probably be added to the wiki.
> >
> >
> >>> Next I changed the ScanOptions within wrapper-kaspersky to "-i0"
> >>> and took
> >>> the -j3 and -q out of the call: "${PackageDir}/$Scanner 
> $ScanOptions 
> >>> -o$Report "$@
> >>>
> >>
> >> Is this agreed as a change I should make to the main source tree?
> >> Does everyone have 5.5? Or are most/many people still running the 
> >> previous version?
> >>
> >
> > I tried removing only one of the options at a time, and 
> found out that 
> > removing only -j3 helps. So the diff is:
> >
> > --- kaspersky-wrapper.orig      2005-08-03 21:33:28.000000000 +0300
> > +++ kaspersky-wrapper   2005-08-18 01:36:39.079616824 +0300
> > @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
> >
> >    Args=`echo "$@" | sed -e 's/ -I/ -i/g; s/^-I/-i/g; s/-- / /g;'`
> >    rm -f $Report
> > -  ${PackageDir}/$Scanner $ScanOptions -o$Report -j3 -q "$@"
> > +  ${PackageDir}/$Scanner $ScanOptions -o$Report -q "$@"
> >    cat $Report
> >    rm -f $Report
> >    exit
> >
> > And Kaspersky 5.0 still works with this change, so it can 
> be safelly 
> > applied.
> > I tested with both archived and plain viruses.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Nerijus
> >


I used the attached patches on my system.  So far it seems to be working
fine.
I found that by making the one change listed above, MailScanner could not do
the auto update.
As well, I didn't want to break compatibility with older versions of
Kaspersky.

regards,
-dan
 

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