Viruses being blocked by filename rules, not being picked up by ClamAV

Budi Febrianto febrianto at sioenasia.com
Fri Dec 1 06:21:33 GMT 2006



mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info wrote on 12/01/2006 12:35:38 PM:

> René Berber Wrote:
>
> > What version of clamav do you have installed?  I'm not sure but there
was
> some
> > reports about 0.90rc2 not working with MS, you can revert to 0.88.6 .
>
> > Check the obvious, does the MS log show that messages are being scanned
> for viruses?
>
> > If not, then check MS configuration file, see if clamavmodule is set in
> "Virus
> > Scanners".
> > --
> > René Berber
>
>
> Thanks for the reply Rene,
>
> Current ClamAV version is 0.88.6.
>
> Log shows:
>
> Dec  1 16:31:43  MailScanner[28665]: New Batch: Found 2 messages waiting
> Dec  1 16:31:43  MailScanner[28665]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
10461
> bytes
> Dec  1 16:31:44  MailScanner[28515]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
>
> ... so I assume this means that it's working?
>
> Option: Virus Scanners = clamav
>
>
> There's nothing obvious that I can see from that :(

I think I have the same problem, not exactly the same.
Viruses are still detected, but there are some suspicous virus but not
detected by clamav, but by filename rules. One of the file is
update-something.exe.
MailScanner version 4.54.6 with clamav 0.88.6

Budi Febrianto



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