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From: Tim Lind (trlind@computerborough.com)
Date: Thu Dec 23 2004 - 19:30:54 EST


Hi There,

The problem has been solved.

Turns out, my own maia account had the virus scanning disabled. I was so
busy looking at the logs roll by and seeing clam saying the virus was
okay, I didn't believe that that was the problem.

Thanks for your help on this.

Tim

Mark Martinec wrote:
> Tim,
>
>
>>This problem has me yanking out my hair.
>>I am running amavisd amavisd-new-20030616-p10 on an OpenBSD 3.6 machine.
>>...
>>What is happening is, when I enable lookup_sql_dsn, viruses get
>>through. The logs show the infected files as being okay.
>> Dec 21 10:20:57 mailscan amavisd[21875]: (21875-01) Clam Antivirus-clamd
>> result: /var/amavisd/tmp/amavis-20041221T102057-21875/parts/part-00002:
>> Eicar-Test-Signature FOUND\n
>>And here it is again when turned on:
>> Dec 21 10:18:23 mailscan amavisd[7037]: (07037-01) Clam Antivirus-clamd
>> result: /var/amavisd/tmp/amavis-20041221T101823-07037/parts: OK\n
>
>
> I don't remember hearing about such a problem so far.
>
> The first thing to do would be to determine if the
> files passed to clamd are different in the two cases,
> or is it the virus scanner that behaves differently.
>
> Try adding another virus scanner to the mix, e.g. clamscan,
> just to see if a command line scanner behaves differently
> that the clamd.
>
> You may set: @debug_sender_maps=(1);
> which will cause temporary directories to be preserved
> unconditionally (or make it trigger debug for some test sender only).
> This way you will be able to examine the preserved directory
> and see if the correct files are being passed to a virus scanner.
>
> Mark
>
>

-- 
Tim Lind - RHCE, MCP, A+ Certified Technician
Computerborough
Down To Earth Information Systems & Services
603 924-2370
http://www.computerborough.com
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