On 28 Apr 2005 at 13:50, Matt wrote:
Sorry about being wrong on both counts.. but I was trying to help!

-Nick



> 
> Nick,
> 
> Thanks for the reply, but I think you missed part of the 
> discussion.This is an F-Prot issue. Also, regardless of not finding a
> parse string in report.txt, F-Prot isn't throwing one of the three
> codes that people around here consider to be a virus, i.e. 3, 6 or 8.
> If it threw that code, Declude would pick it up as a virus tagged by
> F-Prot regardless of what the report.txt showed. The Report.txt is
> only used for identifying the virus, but in this case it is a clue
> that tells us that F-Prot is probably throwing an error of some sort
> since this file is being generated and shouldn't otherwise be.
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Nick wrote: 
>     On 28 Apr 2005 at 12:57, Matt wrote:
> 
>     Matt - 
> 
>     If this becomes a real problem that you see and can monitor I
>     would revert back to an older scan.exe to eliminate the issue of
>     versions.
> 
>     This is a possible clue:
> 
>     " Could not find parse string Infection: in report.txt"
> 
>     What does this mean?
> 
>     Your virus.cfg needs a different setup parameter or report.txt
>     cannot be found?
> 
>     -Nick
> 
>         04/28/2005 05:49:04 QB18D740700A83968 MIME file: document.scr
>         [base64; Length=52224 Checksum=6533396] 04/28/2005 05:49:04
>         QB18D740700A83968 Invalid SCR Vulnerability 04/28/2005
>         05:49:04 QB18D740700A83968 Banning file with SCR extension
>         [application/octet-stream]. --- 6 second gap where F-Prot
>         scans message --- 04/28/2005 05:49:10 QB18D740700A83968 Could
>         not find parse string Infection: in report.txt 04/28/2005
>         05:49:11 QB18D740700A83968 Scanner 2: Virus=the
>         W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Attachment=document.scr [0] O 04/28/2005
>         05:49:11 QB18D740700A83968 File(s) are INFECTED [the
>         W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 13] 04/28/2005 05:49:11 QB18D740700A83968
>         Deleting file with virus 04/28/2005 05:49:11 QB18D740700A83968
>         Deleting E-mail with virus! 04/28/2005 05:49:11
>         QB18D740700A83968 Scanned: CONTAINS A VIRUS [MIME: 2 54788]
>         04/28/2005 05:49:11 QB18D740700A83968 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>         To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [outgoing from 12.152.254.47] 04/28/2005
>         05:49:11 QB18D740700A83968 Subject: MAIL TRANSACTION FAILED
> 
>         04/28/2005 09:09:41 QE095EDCB006E8802 MIME file: doc.zip
>         [base64; Length=55408 Checksum=6875560] --- 4 second gap where
>         F-Prot scans message --- 04/28/2005 09:09:45 QE095EDCB006E8802
>         Could not find parse string Infection: in report.txt
>         04/28/2005 09:09:46 QE095EDCB006E8802 Scanner 2: Virus=the
>         W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Attachment= [0] O 04/28/2005 09:09:46
>         QE095EDCB006E8802 File(s) are INFECTED [the W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>         13] 04/28/2005 09:09:46 QE095EDCB006E8802 Deleting file with
>         virus 04/28/2005 09:09:46 QE095EDCB006E8802 Deleting E-mail
>         with virus! 04/28/2005 09:09:46 QE095EDCB006E8802 Scanned:
>         CONTAINS A VIRUS [MIME: 2 55605] 04/28/2005 09:09:46
>         QE095EDCB006E8802 From: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:
>         [EMAIL PROTECTED] [outgoing from 208.7.179.200] 04/28/2005
>         09:09:46 QE095EDCB006E8802 Subject: hello
> 
>         04/28/2005 09:47:55 QE98BF4DC00DA98FB MIME file: data.scr
>         [base64; Length=56320 Checksum=6982245] 04/28/2005 09:47:55
>         QE98BF4DC00DA98FB Invalid SCR Vulnerability 04/28/2005
>         09:47:55 QE98BF4DC00DA98FB Banning file with SCR extension
>         [application/octet-stream]. --- 9 second gap where F-Prot
>         scans message --- 04/28/2005 09:48:04 QE98BF4DC00DA98FB Could
>         not find parse string Infection: in report.txt 04/28/2005
>         09:48:05 QE98BF4DC00DA98FB Scanner 2: Virus=the
>         W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Attachment=data.scr [0] O 04/28/2005 09:48:05
>         QE98BF4DC00DA98FB File(s) are INFECTED [the W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>         13] 04/28/2005 09:48:05 QE98BF4DC00DA98FB Deleting file with
>         virus 04/28/2005 09:48:05 QE98BF4DC00DA98FB Deleting E-mail
>         with virus! 04/28/2005 09:48:05 QE98BF4DC00DA98FB Scanned:
>         CONTAINS A VIRUS [MIME: 2 56551] 04/28/2005 09:48:05
>         QE98BF4DC00DA98FB From: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:
>         [EMAIL PROTECTED] [outgoing from 208.7.179.200] 04/28/2005
>         09:48:05 QE98BF4DC00DA98FB Subject: Good day
>     I'm virtually certain that this is what was happening yesterday,
>     but under heavier load, F-Prot was taking longer to scan the
>     messages than the 30 seconds that I allow it to. There are no
>     other long delays like this that I can find. F-Prot based on past
>     testing should detect a typical virus in 100 ms on my system, but
>     it is not only taking much more time to scan a very small file, it
>     is also missing the virus.
> 
>     I suspect that this is happening on other systems, but the timeout
>     issue probably wasn't seen as often because I have my timeout set
>     to 30 seconds instead of 60 seconds, and I had very heavy load for
>     much of the day yesterday. If others are running two virus
>     scanners including F-Prot, it would help to confirm my findings by
>     searching for a hit on the second virus scanner hitting, but
>     F-Prot missing and also taking several seconds or more to return a
>     result.
> 
>     If you search your logs for "Could not find parse string
>     Infection: in report.txt", it might help to narrow down the
>     results. I even tested with McAfee run first and then F-Prot and
>     these messages would still appear when F-Prot didn't detect
>     anything and McAfee did. Here's an example with McAfee run first,
>     detected a virus, and then F- Prot took it's time, generated a
>     report.txt file but didn't return a virus result code:
>         04/28/2005 01:37:50 Q76AE2D3600E0E263 MIME file: text.zip
>         [base64; Length=56434 Checksum=6987682] 04/28/2005 01:37:51
>         Q76AE2D3600E0E263 Scanner 1: Virus=the W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>         Attachment= [0] O --- 7 second gap while F-Prot scans ---
>         04/28/2005 01:37:58 Q76AE2D3600E0E263 Could not find parse
>         string Infection: in report.txt 04/28/2005 01:37:58
>         Q76AE2D3600E0E263 File(s) are INFECTED [the W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>         8] 04/28/2005 01:37:58 Q76AE2D3600E0E263 Deleting file with
>         virus 04/28/2005 01:37:58 Q76AE2D3600E0E263 Deleting E-mail
>         with virus! 04/28/2005 01:37:58 Q76AE2D3600E0E263 Scanned:
>         CONTAINS A VIRUS [MIME: 2 58564] 04/28/2005 01:37:58
>         Q76AE2D3600E0E263 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:
>         [EMAIL PROTECTED] [outgoing from 208.7.179.200] 04/28/2005
>         01:37:58 Q76AE2D3600E0E263 Subject: Good day
>     I'm guessing that F-Prot doesn't produce a Report.txt file unless
>     something happens besides it being found clean, and this file is
>     being generated after a long delay and contains no identifiable
>     infection string and the result code isn't 3,6 or 8, otherwise
>     Declude would have considered it a virus. I'm guessing that the
>     report.txt file contains a report of an error???
> 
>     I'm also guessing that this might explain the high CPU usage that
>     Darrell was reporting for F-Prot yesterday, though these events
>     are not very common on my system, only about twice an hour it
>     would seem.
> 
>     Matt
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