On 11/08/2009 10:56 AM, Sandy Drobic wrote:
Avira has changed to a new major version of their virus scanner a few weeks ago. The old version is now deprecated and you should find according hints in your logs. Updating the old version is dependent on luck and takes a lot of time.
Download the new version, that should solve your problem. The new version has some new features like mail notifications for missing updates and the like. That was something I had to script for the old version.
Better delete the entire /usr/lib/AntiVir directory and start fresh with the new installation. Updates are no longer downloaded by "antivir --update", it is replaced with the command: /usr/lib/AntiVir/avupdate --product=Guard
Just set up a cronjob to run the command.
Another change is that integration into amavisd-new is no longer working, I found a working setting in the forum:
### Avira for UNIX 3.x ['Avira AntiVir', ['avscan'], '-s --batch --alert-action=none {}', [0], qr/FUND:/, qr/FUND: ([^;.]+) ;/m ],
There are several other changes like the quarantine home directory. You need to change the setting in /etc/avira/avguard.conf and /etc/avira/avscan.conf to:
QuarantineDirectory /var/spool/amavis/virusmails/
Otherwise you get errors and complaints in your logs. Aside from that you need the usual settings to change the notification email address and such.
Thanks a lot for the info, but maybe I am missing something and have a question. It seems to work now with amavis only with avguard installed, which requires a daemon running, and as far as I have found, also requires the dazuko kernel module. Amavis shows the antivir fails looking for avguard daemon. Am I missing something? The older version did not require a daemon nor kernel module to virus scan email. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 11.1 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org