Older version and huge problem

[Julian Field]

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On 9 Mar 2006, at 11:38, Darren Walker wrote:
> Thanks for your response. I fully understand that it is an old  
> piece of kit,
> unfortunately convincing a client is sometimes more difficult, when  
> they
> expect things to run for ever. I also fully understand that you can't
> support version 3 too.
>
> Could you tell me if it is at least scanning the files properly and  
> removing
> viruses that it is aware of? - or is it just going through the  
> motions?

Sorry, I honestly haven't got a clue. I suggest you try it with a  
copy of the Eicar test file (www.eicar.org).

>
> Thanks
>
> Darren
>
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> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of  
> Julian
> Field
> Sent: 09 March 2006 11:20
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Older version and huge problem
>
> * PGP Signed by an unmatched address: 03/09/06 at 11:19:48
>
> For 3.27 to work properly, you need a version of F-Prot from back
> then too. And that won't recognise much in the way of recent viruses.
> Sorry, but the world has moved on since the days of Cobalt Qube
> systems, no-one that I know of properly supports them any more.
>
> I certainly don't provide any support on MailScanner version 3 any
> more, I haven't supported it for a couple of years now at least.
>
> On 9 Mar 2006, at 10:50, Darren Walker wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> We have tried in vain to update a Cobalt Qube 3 to the latest
>> version of
>> Mailscanner without success. The Qube developed a problem and
>> needed to be
>> re-installed. Originally Mailscanner and F-prot were running on it
>> which
>> were installed about 2-3 years ago.
>> The problem is that we cannot update the version of perl without
>> loosing the
>> GUI. We have completely reformatted and re-installed the whole qube
>> from
>> fresh, and tried to install all the various perl modules by hand, but
>> whatever we do we cannot get mailscanner to run successfully, the
>> output is
>> missing module x or y or z or some other problem. We have spent 4  
>> days
>> trying to get it to work and basically given up.
>>
>> We have ended up re-installing version 3.271 on a fresh
>> installation of the
>> Qube and it works except for a huge problem. The client has f-prot
>> but the
>> version originally installed we are not sure of- but the new
>> version gives
>> the following error
>>
>> ---------SNIP-------
>>
>> Mar  9 10:48:30 qube in.qpopper[14592]: (v?) POP login by user
>> "dscott" at
>> (192.9.200.147) 192.9.200.147
>> Mar  9 10:48:31 qube mailscanner[14388]: Either you've found a bug in
>> MailScanner's F-Prot output parser, or F-Prot's output format has
>> changed!
>> F-Prot said this "Search: .". Please mail the author of MailScanner
>> Mar  9 10:48:31 qube mailscanner[14388]: Either you've found a bug in
>> MailScanner's F-Prot output parser, or F-Prot's output format has
>> changed!
>> F-Prot said this "Action: Report only". Please mail the author of
>> MailScanner
>> Mar  9 10:48:31 qube mailscanner[14388]: Either you've found a bug in
>> MailScanner's F-Prot output parser, or F-Prot's output format has
>> changed!
>> F-Prot said this "Files: "Dumb" scan of all files". Please mail the
>> author
>> of MailScanner
>> Mar  9 10:48:31 qube mailscanner[14388]: Either you've found a bug in
>> MailScanner's F-Prot output parser, or F-Prot's output format has
>> changed!
>> F-Prot said this "Switches: -ARCHIVE -PACKED -SERVER -OLD". Please
>> mail the
>> author of MailScanner
>> Mar  9 10:48:31 qube mailscanner[14388]: Scanned 1 messages, 1737
>> bytes in 3
>> seconds---------SNIP-------
>>
>> Is there anything we can do to sort this out Im not sure that
>> mailscanner is
>> now running the virus scan correctly- or is it that it just cannot  
>> run
>> certain aspects of it. I don't know if I can download an older
>> version of
>> f-prot.
>>
>> Any help would be much appreciated
>> Thanks
>>
>> Darren
>>
>>
>>
>>
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