[Mimedefang] BitDefender

[Philipp Baer]

Stefan Schoeman wrote:
> Hello Philip,
> 
> Thanks for your thoughts on BDC. Well, I've finally got BDC actually
> scanning correctly (from the commandline that is).  I also figured out
> that my defang user did not have permissions to access all the BDC data
> files, but that was easy to fix. Now, if I run as the defang user, I can
> get BDC to execute and identify viruses just fine.

Ah, yes. That's right, that also happened to me when I first installed
bdc, right. *g*


> But somehow, when run under MIMEDefang, all the scans come up as clean.
> I started messing inside mimedefang.pl just to log what's going on, and
> this is what I get when I send a MiMail virus :

[...]

> You can see that I extract the actual virus command and then capture the
> results from the scanner. But the BDC scanner says all is fine :( Maybe
> BDC checks whether it is being run from a terminal and just gives null
> results if it is not. A normal scan on a directory containing the same
> file gives the following:

[...]

I see. Are you sure bdc was able to load all it's files (virus
definitions, ...)? I can remember also having seen this behavior
before. My bdc files belong to defang, group root, the permissions are
set to 644 except the ini file, which has 600.


ciao, phb

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