Commercial scanner clamav timed out!

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jul 6 14:28:07 IST 2007


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Rob Sterenborg wrote:
>> Wilson
>>
>> Have a look at the clamd.conf for timeout settings!
>>     
>
> Maybe I'm overlooking something, but I don't see clamd mentioned
> anywhere so I'm guessing clamscan is used, of which I've recently seen
> some post saying it's timeing out.
>
> OP: Switch to either clamdscan or clamavmodule if you're using clamscan.
>
>   
I do not support use of clamdscan. If you want to use clamd then upgrade 
to version 4.61 and use the direct clamd support. Editing *-wrapper 
scripts is not recommended.


> Grts,
> Rob
>
>
>   
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
>>> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Wilson Kwok
>>> Sent: 06 July 2007 07:48
>>> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>>> Subject: Commercial scanner clamav timed out!
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Environment: postfix-2.2.10-1.1.el4 +
>>>       
>> MailScanner-perl-MIME-Base64-3.05-5
>>     
>>> + clamav-0.90.3-1.el4.rf + spamassassin-3.2.1-1.el4.rf
>>>
>>> MailScanner always sent logs, can anyone help me ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Log here:
>>>       
>
>   
>>> Jul  6 11:36:39 mailgateway MailScanner[20662]: Commercial scanner
>>> clamav timed out!
>>> Jul  6 11:36:39 mailgateway MailScanner[20662]: clamav: Failed to
>>> complete, timed out
>>> Jul  6 11:36:39 mailgateway MailScanner[20662]: Virus Scanning:
>>> Denial Of Service attack detected!
>>>       
>
>   
>>> Jul  6 11:37:30 mailgateway MailScanner[20659]: Commercial scanner
>>> clamav timed out!
>>> Jul  6 11:37:30 mailgateway MailScanner[20659]: clamav: Failed to
>>> complete, timed out
>>> Jul  6 11:37:30 mailgateway MailScanner[20659]: Virus Scanning:
>>> Denial Of Service attack detected!
>>>       
>
>   
>>> Jul  6 11:38:34 mailgateway MailScanner[20121]: Commercial scanner
>>> clamav timed out!
>>> Jul  6 11:38:34 mailgateway MailScanner[20121]: clamav: Failed to
>>> complete, timed out
>>> Jul  6 11:38:34 mailgateway MailScanner[20121]: Virus Scanning:
>>> Denial Of Service attack is in message 80B8741821F.81DD6
>>> Jul  6 11:38:34 mailgateway MailScanner[20121]: Infected message
>>> 80B8741821F.81DD6 came from 200.86.17.36
>>>       
>
>   
>>> Jul  6 11:39:44 mailgateway MailScanner[20428]: Commercial scanner
>>> clamav timed out!
>>> Jul  6 11:39:44 mailgateway MailScanner[20428]: clamav: Failed to
>>> complete, timed out 
>>>       

Jules

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