Bug? in syslog infection messages

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Jun 7 14:01:11 IST 2005


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In SweepViruses.pm swap over lines 1920 and 1921.
They should currently say:

   $logout =~ s/^.+\/(.+\/.+$)/\.\/$1/; # New
   MailScanner::Log::InfoLog($logout);

and you probably want

   MailScanner::Log::InfoLog($logout);
   $logout =~ s/^.+\/(.+\/.+$)/\.\/$1/; # New

instead.


On 7 Jun 2005, at 13:36, Richard Lynch wrote:

> Julian Field wrote:
>
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>> What virus scanner are you using? (And if it's Sophos or ClamAV  
>> then  the module version or the command-line version?)
>>
>>
> Sorry, I should have mentioned that I'm running F-Prot.  I'm also  
> running ClamAV in command line mode.  The output from ClamAV does  
> include the full path.
>
> -- Rich
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>
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>> On 6 Jun 2005, at 13:56, Richard Lynch wrote:
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>>> I upgraded to the latest stable over the weekend.  The infection   
>>> messages in the syslog are now formatted like this...
>>>
>>> Jun  6 04:33:33 helen MailScanner[9301]: ./eyghn.zip->eyghn.htm   
>>> Infection: W32/Mytob.EK at mm
>>>
>>> Prior to the upgrade the messages are formatted like this...
>>>
>>> Jun  4 04:16:30 barney MailScanner[18024]: /var/spool/ 
>>> MailScanner/ incoming/18024/j548EsXL032151/tyve.scr  Infection:  
>>> W32/Mytob.CZ at mm
>>>
>>> Note that the full path is missing.  Unfortunately, I'm counting  
>>> on  the old message format in order to tie an infected message  
>>> back to  the sending site and targeted user.  I'm using the  
>>> message-id to do  that.  This is used for reports which I send to  
>>> customers.  Is  there an easy way to return to the old message  
>>> format?
>>>
>>> Richard Lynch
>>> WVNET
>>>
>>>
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