Re: [Clamav-users] Everything gets marked as a virus

From: Dennis Peterson <dennispe(at)inetnw.com>
Date: Wed Jul 04 2007 - 12:58:12 EDT

David Boltz wrote:
> I'm using MailScanner / SpamAssassin / Sendmail /ClamAV .09.3
>
> This weekend my MailScanner started acting up. I?ve gone through
> everything that I could think of and I ran into a lot of brick walls
> along the way. In the end I?ve got the problem narrowed down to
> clamav.
>
> If I disable clamav in the MailScanner.conf, the system works as
> normal. If I enable ClamAV it will slow down to a crawl and every
> message gets marked as a virus. This is because the virus scanner is
> timing out. My timeout is set for the default 5 mins so there is no
> way that every single email should be timing out. The MailScanner
> maillog shows the following:
>
> Commercial scanner ClamAV timed out!
> MailScanner[28984]: ClamAV: Failed to complete, timed out
>
> I?ve tried re-installing ClamAV .90.3 but this didn?t change anything.
> Does anyone have any clues as to why this would happen?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave B.

My guess is you have configured your system to reject mail if the AV scanner fails and your AV scanner has failed. If so you have two problems. As for the AV scanner if you are using clamscan to scan incoming mail then consider using clamdscan instead.

dp

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