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

From: Rob Sterenborg <R.Sterenborg(at)netsourcing.nl>
Date: Thu Jul 05 2007 - 01:53:17 EDT

clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net 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:

Yes, I've been in this situation recently: all virusscans timeout causing it to mark virtually everything as a virus. What I did was switch to clamd(scan) and the problem was no more. If you don't want to run another daemon then you could also use the clamavmodule but I didn't go there.

Grts,
Rob

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