Questionable output from ClamAV?

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon May 9 22:49:09 IST 2005


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This is a known one, and I have published a fix for it. Upgrade to the
latest stable version and the error (which is harmless anyway) should go
away.

Jason Williams wrote:

> Running MS 4.40.11
> ClamAV 0.84 (no problems so far)
>
> Since this sober worm has been on the internet, i've had a ton of blocks
> recently. In fact, i was getting hammered pretty good from a few places
> that I just put their IP addresses in my access file and started
> blocking them.
>
> Anyway, saw this today and wasn't sure about it and thought i'd ask
> here. This just came in;
>
> May  9 13:58:28 mail MailScanner[11724]: ProcessClamAVOutput:
> unrecognised line
> "/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/11724/./j49Kv1PA011838/Winzipped-Text.pif:
>
> Empty file". Please contact the authors!
>
> Being as I have just upgraded my MS from a older version (still
> implementing all the goodies) this was a new one I found.
> Anything to be concerned about?
>
> Anyone else blocking a ton of items like this? Been  busy on the net
> lately.
>
> --
> Jason Williams
> Systems Administrator
> Courtesy Mortgage, Ltd.
> San Diego, Ca 92108
> (619)228-2005 x114
> jwilliams at courtesymortgage.com
>
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