all virus scanners reporting found virus

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Nov 7 09:49:30 GMT 2008


Can you just confirm you have
Include Scanner Name In Reports = yes
in your MailScanner.conf?

If so, I can't see why you wouldn't get the right output. It's only a 
logging problem.

Rose, Bobby wrote:
> I've noticed something different related to the AV logging.  I'm using clamd and since I updated to 4.72.5, then ::INFECTED:: entry is missing Clamd ref.  Before, even though I was using Clamd, it was reporting as ClamAVModule.
>
> For example, with 4.71.10, I'd see
> 	Nov  5 13:58:22 eeyore MailScanner[20251]: ClamAVModule::INFECTED:: Sanesecurity.Hdr.8338.UNOFFICIAL FOUND :: ./mA5IveLi001260/ 
>
> After the upgrade to 4.72.5, I see
> 	Nov  5 14:13:49 eeyore MailScanner[8199]: ::INFECTED:: Phishing.Heuristics.Email.SpoofedDomain :: ./mA5JDfbU009742/ 
>
> I've replaced my SweepViruses.pm with the one you posted and it didn't change anything.  Also, I see the same thing on both of my inbound mail routers.  I still see log entries like this so it is using clamd and getting the infected status code back from it.
>
> 	Nov  5 14:13:48 eeyore MailScanner[8199]: Virus Scanning: Clamd found 1 infections
>
> Any ideas?
> -=Bobby
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 9:20 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: all virus scanners reporting found virus
>
> Please try the attached SweepViruses.pm file with the latest release of MailScanner.
> Hopefully this will fix the problem. It's actually just a reporting bug.
>
> Jules.
>
> Paul Houselander (SME) wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm using MailScanner version 4.72.5 with clamd, f-prot and kaspersky
>>
>> I'm using the sanesecurity clam sigs as well.
>>
>> I've just noticed that when Clamd finds an infection the other virus 
>> scanners also say they found an infection even though they didn't
>>
>> Nov 6 12:02:19 tokyo MailScanner[27046]: New Batch: Scanning 1 
>> messages, 1269 bytes
>>
>> Nov 6 12:02:19 tokyo MailScanner[27046]: SpamAssassin cache hit for 
>> message mA6C2Gie027792
>>
>> Nov 6 12:02:19 tokyo MailScanner[27046]: Spam Checks: Found 1 spam 
>> messages
>>
>> Nov 6 12:02:19 tokyo MailScanner[27046]: Virus and Content Scanning:
>> Starting
>>
>> Nov 6 12:02:19 tokyo MailScanner[27046]: Clamd::INFECTED::
>> Sanesecurity.Hdr.8232.UNOFFICIAL :: ./mA6C2Gie027792/
>>
>> Nov 6 12:02:19 tokyo MailScanner[27046]: Virus Scanning: Clamd found 2 
>> infections
>>
>> Nov 6 12:02:21 tokyo MailScanner[27046]: Virus Scanning: F-Prot6 found
>> 2 infections
>>
>> Nov 6 12:02:21 tokyo MailScanner[27046]: Virus Scanning: Kaspersky 
>> found 2 infections
>>
>> Nov 6 12:02:21 tokyo MailScanner[27046]: Infected message
>> mA6C2Gie027792 came from 79.139.143.136
>>
>> Nov 6 12:02:21 tokyo MailScanner[27046]: Virus Scanning: Found 2 
>> viruses
>>
>> Is this expected behavior? I've only recently upgraded (and also only 
>> just started using clamd, I used to use clamavmodule) so not sure if 
>> it's always done it or since the upgrade.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>     
>
> Jules
>
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>
>   

Jules

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