Virus Scanning Misreporting ?

UxBoD uxbod at splatnix.net
Tue Nov 27 11:33:27 GMT 2007


Hi,

We run clamav for our virus scanning but have been testing nod32 aswell.  Just noticed in our logfiles this :-

Nov 27 06:03:51 bianchi MailScanner[23803]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
Nov 27 06:03:51 bianchi clamd[31077]: /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/23803/10B1D7CF74A.AAFF8.message: Email.Phishing.RB-2033 FOUND
Nov 27 06:03:51 bianchi clamd[31077]: /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/23803/10B1D7CF74A.AAFF8/msg-23803-3.html: Email.Phishing.RB-2033 FOUND
Nov 27 06:03:51 bianchi MailScanner[23803]: Clamd::INFECTED:: Email.Phishing.RB-2033 FOUND :: ./10B1D7CF74A.AAFF8/
Nov 27 06:03:51 bianchi MailScanner[23803]: Clamd::INFECTED:: Email.Phishing.RB-2033 FOUND :: ./10B1D7CF74A.AAFF8/msg-23803-3.html
Nov 27 06:03:51 bianchi MailScanner[23803]: Virus Scanning: Clamd found 2 infections
Nov 27 06:03:53 bianchi MailScanner[23803]: Virus Scanning: Nod32 found 2 infections
Nov 27 06:03:53 bianchi MailScanner[23803]: Infected message 10B1D7CF74A.AAFF8 came from 79.176.158.147
Nov 27 06:03:53 bianchi MailScanner[23803]: Virus Scanning: Found 2 viruses
Nov 27 06:03:53 bianchi MailScanner[23803]: Logging message 10B1D7CF74A.AAFF8 to SQL

Yet nod32 has not actually detected anything, because the detection is from the SaneSecurity database.  Is this the expected behaviour ?


Regards,

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