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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,
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> 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.
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> Vaughn
>=20
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> 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
> > > >
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