On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:25:44PM -0400, Patrick Boutilier wrote :
> Markus Fischer wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 07:55:09PM +0200, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote :
> >
> >>Hi Everybody ,
> >>
> >> Could you give me advise about exiscan and Clam AntiVirus ?!
> >>I red some mailing list about Clam AntiVirus , and I afraid of Clam
> >>because
> >>I saw too many unexpected die abput it.
> >>
> >> Does any body using exiscan and Clam AntiVirus together and I also
> >>want to ask How do you trust it ? or Does it reliable ?!
> >
> >
> > I'm facing exactly this problem since a few days. Every 4 to six
> > hours clamav suddenly dies away (in mainlog: timeout error) and that
> > was it. I need to manually kill all clamd processes and restart it.
> > I'm not very happy with it.
> >
> > Strange however, this exacrly not-touched-since-months setup worked
> > before. I'm using debian testing and updating on a regular basis,
> > however I haven't see clamav or exim updates for a while.
> >
> > I'm lost currently. Disabled clamav is too high a security risk
> > however ... I don't know what I shold do :|
>
>
> Do you have the ScanMail option enabled in clamav.conf ? If so, disable it.
Yes, I actually have. But wouldn't this disable scanning of mails
from the mailserver and defeat the purpose?
- Markus