syslog for ClamAV?

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Jul 6 19:48:00 IST 2005


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Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

> Julian,
>
>    I've been switching back and forth between clamavmodule and
> clamav in 4.43.8 (bug chasing).  With clamavmodule, I get a nice
> syslog message for an infected email:
>
> ClamAVModule::INFECTED:: Worm.SomeFool.Z:: ./j66IRGRu018517/Bill.zip
>
> With clamav, I don't get anything similar, just vague mumblings about 
> Clam in the "silent virus" message -- maybe.  Any chance that a
> nice INFECTED syslog could appear if you are using just clamav
> (or sophos instead of sophossavi)?

It just logs what it gets from the scanner. The line you are seeing 
above is the output from the function I wrote that interfaces to the 
clamav module.

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