ClamAV and MailScanner Bug

[Scott Silva]

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Rose, Bobby wrote:
> So no one else is seeing this problem?  I'm talking about onlying clamav
> as the scanner....no others and not clamavmodule.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Rose, Bobby
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 5:31 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: ClamAV and MailScanner Bug
>
> Last week, I reported a problem that I thought was limited to a
> particular virus but my testing seems to elude to a bigger problem.  If
> MailScanner is using clamav for it's scanner, viruses are being detected
> but MailScanner isn't properly acting on it and is delivering it as a
> uninfected message.
>
> It's not a config issue because I've tried it on two different Solaris 8
> systems and if I switch to clamavmodule or sophos then MailScanner acts
> appropiately.  I've even updated to 4.11.3 today which was in the plans
> anyway.  I used to use sophos and clamav with MailScanner but the
> license for Sophos is just too much and stopped using it about two
> months ago.  And since the viruses were still being detecting, from a
> stats side it looked like things were fine.  For now, I'm switched to
> clamavmodule but this looks like a bug.  I've been a MailScanner user
> since 2002 so exclude me from the newbie filters and comments and let's
> check this out.
>
> ClamAV


Maybe only a Solaris 8 problem. I couldn't tell you how many people are
using Solaris.
I know this isn't much help, but at least you know you aren't being ignored.
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It don't taste like chicken!!"

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