Avast interface not fully functional
SuprDave
mailscanner.list at romehosting.com
Tue Jan 13 20:13:16 GMT 2009
Hi,
I was very happy to see an interface for Avast. After extensive testing,
I discovered that MailScanner does not identify all viruses caught by
Avast. It seems that the interface may be incomplete. Here are my
findings:
I have three virus samples available. During a manual command-line scan
Avast reports.
1: [infected by: EICAR Test-NOT virus!!]
2: [infected by: Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]]
3: [infected by: Win32:Trojan-gen {Other}]
MailScanner successfully identifies #1 but ignores #2 and #3. My best
guess would be that the VirusSweep file is somehow confused by the extra
brackets or maybe the colon. Note that #2 uses [ and ], #3 uses { and }.
Any help resolving this would be greatly appreciated. I am using the
latest release of MailScanner on a Debian box.
Thanks!
Dave Gattis
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