On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 03:27, Eduardo wrote:

> mar, 02 mar 2004 15:03:11 +0100:18635: run  /usr/local/bin/sweep -f -all -eec -sc 
> -nc -ss -nb -archive  /var/spool/qmailscan/tmp/host107823619146118635  2>&1
> mar, 02 mar 2004 15:03:11 +0100:18635: --output of sophos sweep was:
> >>> Virus 'W32/Netsky-B' encontrado en el archivo 
> >>> /var/spool/qmailscan/tmp/host107823619146118635/textfile.zip/textfile.pif
> >>> Virus 'W32/Netsky-B' encontrado en el archivo 
> >>> /var/spool/qmailscan/tmp/host107823619146118635/textfile.zip
> --
> 02/03/2004 15:03:11:18635: error_condition: X-Qmail-Scanner-1.20: corrupt or unknown 
> Sophos scanner error or memory/resource/perms problem - exit status 24

Language issue I'm afraid. The sub-sweep looks for:

/Virus\s+'(.*)'\s+found|Virus\s+fragment\s+'(.*)'\s+found/m

And of course your install of Sophos isn't English.

A "proper" solution would be to rely exclusively on the exit codes to
tell if a virus has been found. Unfortunately the problem Q-S faces is
that the vendors have a habit of changes exit codes all the time...

Not only that, but we want to get the name of the virus out of the
output - so we need to know what to look for...

Is it a localized version of Sophos, or a "native"? i.e. If you set
"export LANG=C" then run "sweep" from the command line, is the output in
English or not?

Maybe Q-S should set the localization information to English so that any
localized AV systems go back into English-mode - so that it can catch
the correct output. It would have to be done in such a way as to not
alter the language of Alert messages of course... 

Cheers

Jason Haar
Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1




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