[Mimedefang] clamav oddity

Ashley M. Kirchner ashley at pcraft.com
Fri Apr 30 15:30:05 EDT 2004


Bill Randle wrote:

> Have you updated clamav recently? Is is possible you have more than 
> one  copy of the virus
> definition tables installed? While clamd will get the path to the db 
> files from the /etc/clamav.conf
> file, clamscan does not read the config file and uses its internal 
> defaults unless you override
> it via command line args. Try running clamscan (with --mbox) and with 
> the arg that explicitly tells
> it where to find the db files (get the path from /etc/clamav.conf or 
> /etc/freshclam.conf [which should
> be the same]).

    I did update it, however there's only one location those db files 
are located in.  clamscan is using the right location (with or without 
specifying it on the command line) and it still only sees two.  I think 
David's right, in that it only scans complete messages which include 
their headers, and it ignore those that don't have all their headers.  
Kinda weird.

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