BitDefender error

[Dimitri Yioulos]

On Thursday 16 June 2011 10:49:09 am Scott Silva wrote:
> on 6/16/2011 6:41 AM Dimitri Yioulos spake the following:
> > All,
> >
> > We're provisioning a new mail server and are, of course,
> > going to use MailScanner.  Along with the latest version of
> > MS, we've also installed the latest Sendmail, SA, ClamAV, and
> > Sophos, BitDefender-Console-Antivirus-7.1-3, and Mailwatch
> > 1.4, on a CentOS 5.6 box.  Thus far, everything has gone well
> > and, under test conditions, almost everything works just
> > fine.  I do get this error, though, when running "MailScanner
> > --lint":
> >
> > /usr/lib/MailScanner/bitdefender-wrapper: line 63: 13099
> > Segmentation fault      ${PackageDir}/$prog --log=$LogFile
> > $extras "$@" > /dev/null 2>&1
> >
> > This error did not occur on the initial installation of
> > BitDefender, but began after the first update of the
> > signature files.  (We're using BitDefender on our production
> > system, set up almost exactly the same as described above,
> > without problem).
> >
> > I realize that we could let BitDefender go, but another layer
> > of defense can't be bad, so we're trying to hang on to it. 
> > Has anybody run into this problem and/or can offer a
> > solution?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Dimitri
>
> I had to dump bitdefender over a year ago. It doesn't seem to
> be supported by the newer signatures very well, segfaulted
> constantly, and hadn't caught anything for over a year before
> that.
>


:-(

Thanks, Scott.


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