--=-vUWXTcWhIoePgW06OXMa Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Personally, I use clamav. I just started using it and I'm working on integrating it with my mail server via amavis. It looks pretty good and has performed flawlessly thus far (detected a windows trojan in an archive I suspected of not being what it was. Trojan.Dropper.JS.Mimail.B was the trojan). Anyways, just thought I'd get its name out there. On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 17:31, Vaughn Treude wrote: > Mage, >=20 > Thanks for the tip. I didn't see the Linux version on their site but the= y=20 > say they're updating they're server so hopefully that's a termporary thin= g. >=20 > Vaughn >=20 >=20 > On Saturday 31 January 2004 21:41, you wrote: > > try www.free-av.com. > > they have a linux capable virus scanner (it uses the dazuko engine) and= can > > auto-update daily if set so. > > > > I use it here and its been a real life saver. :) > > > > Mage > > > > On Saturday 31 January 2004 03:16 pm, Vaughn Treude wrote: > > > On Saturday 31 January 2004 19:30, you wrote: > > > > I got that a lot as well. started with my old cd/cd-r drive (though= t it > > > > was blown). howeverm replacing with a new emprex DVD/R, CD/r didn't > > > > solve the problem. it works ok in windows on the same box, but for = some > > > > reason, linux (mandrake 9.1) seems to bitch about it. > > > > > > > > I am beginning to think its an OS/software related issue. did you > > > > recently upgrade your OS? > > > > > > > > Mage > > > > > > No, this has been a Mandrake 8 box for well over a year. I'd been ha= ving > > > a hard time with a previous CD drive that seemed flakey - sometimes i= t > > > would read a CD, sometimes it wouldn't. I moved it to another box an= d > > > eventually it failed there, so I threw it out. It was old and slow s= o no > > > big loss. This new CD/DVD drive worked well for quite some time, but = I've > > > had rare occasions when it had trouble playing a CD audio disk. On a > > > couple of those occasions, a gratutitous reboot fixed that problem. > > > > > > One thing I did see last week made me think I'd caught a virus - and > > > maybe I did, but the problem seemed to go away and unfortunately I di= dn't > > > pursue it any further. What happened was that I suddenly couldn't ac= cess > > > the Internet - but only on this box. I could still ping the firewall= box > > > (it also runs Mandrake) and get to the web from other Linux and MS > > > machines. I ran "top" and discovered that kmail had gone crazy, was > > > sucking up most of the system's RAM and was possibly trying to send a= n > > > email to someone I'd never heard of. Of course, I may have accidental= ly > > > replied or forwarded some piece of spam I was deleting. Probably sho= uld > > > look for a virus checker for this thing. > > > > > > Vaughn > > > > > > > On Saturday 31 January 2004 02:00 pm, Vaughn Treude wrote: > > > > > Symptoms: The drive mounts OK, but when I try to "ls" or "cd" it= , > > > > > the message is "bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error" I've a= lso > > > > > noticed that in dmesg there are a number of CD-failure related > > > > > messages, the most notable being: > > > > > > > > > > hdc: packet command error: status=3D0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplet= e > > > > > Error } hdc: packet command error: error=3D0x54 > > > > > hdc: command error: status=3D0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error= } > > > > > hdc: command error: error=3D0x54 > > > > > end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 64 > > > > > isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=3D16:00, iso_blknum=3D16, blo= ck=3D32 > > > > > cdrom: open failed. > > > > > > > > > > And then that last one repeats a bunch of time. I've tried to cl= ean > > > > > it I can't tell if the drive is actually trying to spin the clean= ing > > > > > disk. > > > > > > > > hmmmmmmmm > > > > > > > > > Another interesting symptom: when I try to unmount the CD, it sa= ys: > > > > > umount: it seems /mnt/cdrom is mounted multiple times > > > > > > > > haven't gotten this one yet. > > > > > > > > I am going to try both drives in another box. it could be a bad > > > > secondary port (I hope not!). > > > > > > > > my suggestion, don't toss the drive just yet. > > > > have it tested in another box. > > > > > > > > Mage > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --=20 Bryce C CoBryce Communications --=-vUWXTcWhIoePgW06OXMa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAHHAa/wbq/C6yyPcRAku2AKCuzzFa86b2sjZ7kuftvO1Ipk2SSACdHWic nwEq0gKlaapv91DGqVJYO1s= =38ev -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-vUWXTcWhIoePgW06OXMa--