virus detection reporting wrong scanner

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Sep 2 09:01:41 IST 2008



Jeff Mills wrote:
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>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
>> Of Paul Hutchings
>> Sent: Monday, 1 September 2008 11:03 PM
>> To: MailScanner discussion
>> Subject: RE: virus detection reporting wrong scanner
>>
>> The lint seems to check out just fine.  Maybe my 
>> understanding is wrong, but I thought that if multiple 
>> engines caught a virus in a message it listed that multiple 
>> engines had detected something in the report that's sent to 
>> postmaster (or wherever) - all I know is I have an entry in 
>> maillog by vba32 saying it detected a virus, at the same time 
>> an email was deleted and a report sent to postmaster saying 
>> it was because clam32 had detected a virus - yet there's no 
>> report in the postmaster mailbox that mentions vba32.
>>
>>     
>
> I have a similar issue, but have never bothered with it.
> Clamav finds a virus, and MailScanner reports that F-Prot and
> Bitdefender find it too.
>   
What does your "Virus Scanners =" line say in MailScanner.conf?

>
> Sep  2 03:16:53 sam MailScanner[8070]: Clamd::INFECTED::
> Email.Spam.Gen3737.Sanesecurity.08072802.StormSpam FOUND ::
> ./8C34AD3E132.E90B8/
> Sep  2 03:16:53 sam MailScanner[8070]: Virus Scanning: Clamd found 1
> infections
> Sep  2 03:16:53 sam MailScanner[8070]: Virus Scanning: F-Prot found 1
> infections
> Sep  2 03:16:53 sam MailScanner[8070]: Virus Scanning: Bitdefender found
> 1 infections
> Sep  2 03:16:53 sam MailScanner[8070]: Infected message
> 8C34AD3E132.E90B8 came from 88.243.8.69
> Sep  2 03:16:53 sam MailScanner[8070]: Virus Scanning: Found 1 viruses
> Sep  2 03:16:53 sam MailScanner[8070]: Virus Scanning completed at 3371
> bytes per second
> Sep  2 03:16:53 sam MailScanner[8070]: Viruses marked as silent: Clamd:
> message was infected:
>   

Jules

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