Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (196 mails)

[Oskar Teran <pheonix1t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Björn Scorey wrote:

> Hi Everyone !
>
> I am running Suse 9.0 and I have installed 
>
> qmail (netqmail  Ver. 1.05) 
> amavis (amavis-new Ver. 20030616p5-23) 
> antivir (Ver 2.08-16) 
>
> Antivir seems to be an evaluation version. (The one that came with Suse 9.0) 
>
> I donwloaded the EICAR E-Mail Test Virus but when I send either an infected attachment or simply copy the virus string on the mail, the antivirus doesn't recognize the virus, and the mail passes normally. 
>
> However when I run antivir on the infected file (attachment) by itself, it recognizes the virus. The same occured with f-prot (however I got some minor errors while installing f-prot). When I run either anti-virus scanner on my mailbox (mbox), none of them manage to see the virus. 
>
> Anyone has an idea what's wrong ? 
>
> Regards 
> Björn 
>
>  
sounds like you may not have the virus scaner setup correctly.  I've use 
Vexira and it works perfectly!  Each AV vendor has different way of 
scanning for viruses on emails....


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