RE: [Declude.Virus] HiJack Question

2005-02-07 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)









First, you should be actively monitoring
the HOLD2 directory. There are some scripts on the Declude Tools sight that can
be used for this.



Second, you do not need to cycle the
SMTP service. However, you will have to rename the HOLD2 files if you want to release
them and then manually move them.





John Tolmachoff

Engineer/Consultant/Owner

eServices For You







-Original Message-
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc
Sent: Sunday,
 February 06, 2005 11:12 PM
To: declude.virus@declude.com
Subject: [Declude.Virus] HiJack
Question





Scenario: Dialup ISP using dynamic IP allocation.





Customer#1 using IP address of 1.2.3.4 trips threshold
#2. Logs off.





Customer #2 logs on and obtains the same IP that customer #1
had (1.2.3.4)











My understanding is that HiJack will block Customer #2's
outbound email as well. At leastuntil the Declude Console (DECCON.EXE) is
closed.











Question: If this is true, is it acceptable practice to
cleanup HOLD2, stop the SMTP service, kill the DECCON PID and restart the SMTP
service? Thx.













-M

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the crowd at the bottom. -- unknown 














Re: [Declude.Virus] HiJack Question

2005-02-07 Thread Marc



John,

Been there..doing that. My concern is that Customer 
#2's email will be incorrectly blocked due to DECCON's "memory". I felt it would 
be safer to stop the SMTP service before killing the deccon 
instance.
-M---"Problems are only opportunities in work 
clothes." -- Henry J. Kaiser 

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  John Tolmachoff (Lists) 
  To: Declude.Virus@declude.com 
  Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 2:53 
  AM
  Subject: RE: [Declude.Virus] HiJack 
  Question
  
  
  First, you should 
  be actively monitoring the HOLD2 directory. There are some scripts on the 
  Declude Tools sight that can be used for this.
  
  Second, you do not 
  need to cycle the SMTP service. However, you will have to rename the HOLD2 
  files if you want to release them and then manually move 
  them.
  
  
  John 
  Tolmachoff
  Engineer/Consultant/Owner
  eServices For 
  You
  
  
  -Original 
  Message-From: 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  On Behalf Of MarcSent: Sunday, February 06, 
  2005 11:12 
  PMTo: declude.virus@declude.comSubject: [Declude.Virus] HiJack 
  Question
  
  
  Scenario: Dialup ISP using dynamic 
  IP allocation.
  
  Customer#1 using IP address 
  of 1.2.3.4 trips threshold #2. Logs off.
  
  Customer #2 logs on and obtains 
  the same IP that customer #1 had (1.2.3.4)
  
  
  
  My understanding is that HiJack 
  will block Customer #2's outbound email as well. At leastuntil the 
  Declude Console (DECCON.EXE) is closed.
  
  
  
  Question: If this is true, is it 
  acceptable practice to cleanup HOLD2, stop the SMTP service, kill the DECCON 
  PID and restart the SMTP service? Thx.
  
  
  
  -M---"The toughest 
  part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the 
  bottom." -- unknown 



[Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash

2005-02-07 Thread Matt




I've never seen this before, but beginning on Saturday morning, I
started getting appearances of "Application Error" in my Event Log
about McAfee:
Faulting application Scan.exe, version 4.3.2.0, faulting
module mcscan32.dll, version 4.3.2.0, fault address 0x0001cfd0.

Then this morning the POP3 service started also giving errors in
addition to McAfee:
Faulting application POP3d32.exe, version 12.11.9.8,
faulting module POP3d32.exe, version 12.11.9.8, fault address
0x00010bcb.

The POP3 service had in fact crashed and it needed to be restarted (I
rebooted just to be safe). I believe that this is the first time that
I have ever seen the POP3 service crash. Although I don't believe that
POP3 has anything direct relationship to McAfee on my server since that
app is only used as a command line scanner, I'm quite suspicious of
this causing the issue.

Has anyone else seen either one of these errors on their systems?

Thanks,

Matt
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Re: [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash

2005-02-07 Thread Bill Landry
Although I cannot explain the cause of the issues you've seen, I would
suggest that you upgrade your scan engine:
http://www.mcafeesecurity.com/us/downloads/default.asp?wt.mc_n=us_updateswt.mc_t=ext_li_concid=10373.
Download and run the SuperDat, file which contains the latest dat and engine
updates (version 4400\4426).

Bill
- Original Message - 
From: Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Declude.Virus@declude.com
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 6:27 AM
Subject: [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash


 I've never seen this before, but beginning on Saturday morning, I
 started getting appearances of Application Error in my Event Log about
 McAfee:


 Faulting application Scan.exe, version 4.3.2.0, faulting module
 mcscan32.dll, version 4.3.2.0, fault address 0x0001cfd0.


 Then this morning the POP3 service started also giving errors in
 addition to McAfee:


 Faulting application POP3d32.exe, version 12.11.9.8, faulting module
 POP3d32.exe, version 12.11.9.8, fault address 0x00010bcb.


 The POP3 service had in fact crashed and it needed to be restarted (I
 rebooted just to be safe).  I believe that this is the first time that I
 have ever seen the POP3 service crash.  Although I don't believe that
 POP3 has anything direct relationship to McAfee on my server since that
 app is only used as a command line scanner, I'm quite suspicious of this
 causing the issue.

 Has anyone else seen either one of these errors on their systems?

 Thanks,

 Matt

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RE: [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash

2005-02-07 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
FWIW, I recently ran into a weirdness with McAfee; I use the daily dat
download (engine plus dats), and have so for some months.  What I do is
for reporting completeness, I do a nightly scan of my spam folder to
find out how many viruses were caught as spam.

January didn't work, and I didn't notice for most of the month.  What
was happening was that the script was taking forever, and not completing
for the script ran again the next night.

I copied my spam folder to my local machine and ran the script again,
with much the same result.  I ran SystInternals.com's FileMon and found
that McAfee's scan.exe was reading the current folder and the root of
the drive bazillions of times.  With a small-ish corpus, these
extraneous reads made no difference to the scan time.  With a large
number of files in a directory with a very large number of files, the
scan wasn't worth running.

So just at the end of last week, I modified the script to use F-Prot
instead of McAfee, and that has been working fine.

Andrew 8)

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Landry
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 7:04 AM
To: Declude.Virus@declude.com
Subject: Re: [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash


Although I cannot explain the cause of the issues you've seen, I would
suggest that you upgrade your scan engine:
http://www.mcafeesecurity.com/us/downloads/default.asp?wt.mc_n=us_update
swt.mc_t=ext_li_concid=10373.
Download and run the SuperDat, file which contains the latest dat and
engine updates (version 4400\4426).

Bill
- Original Message - 
From: Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Declude.Virus@declude.com
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 6:27 AM
Subject: [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash


 I've never seen this before, but beginning on Saturday morning, I 
 started getting appearances of Application Error in my Event Log 
 about
 McAfee:


 Faulting application Scan.exe, version 4.3.2.0, faulting module 
 mcscan32.dll, version 4.3.2.0, fault address 0x0001cfd0.


 Then this morning the POP3 service started also giving errors in 
 addition to McAfee:


 Faulting application POP3d32.exe, version 12.11.9.8, faulting module 
 POP3d32.exe, version 12.11.9.8, fault address 0x00010bcb.


 The POP3 service had in fact crashed and it needed to be restarted (I 
 rebooted just to be safe).  I believe that this is the first time that

 I have ever seen the POP3 service crash.  Although I don't believe 
 that POP3 has anything direct relationship to McAfee on my server 
 since that app is only used as a command line scanner, I'm quite 
 suspicious of this causing the issue.

 Has anyone else seen either one of these errors on their systems?

 Thanks,

 Matt

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Re: [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash

2005-02-07 Thread Matt




Andrew,

When you say "reading the root of the drive" do you mean the boot
sector, or the files contained in the root of C: or the drive that was
defined in the command line? And also just to clarify, "reading" in
this case meaning "scanning", correct?

Seems like being able to turn that off, or at least remove files from
the root might make a big performance difference when you have high
volume.

Thanks,

Matt



Colbeck, Andrew wrote:

  FWIW, I recently ran into a weirdness with McAfee; I use the daily dat
download (engine plus dats), and have so for some months.  What I do is
for reporting completeness, I do a nightly scan of my spam folder to
find out how many viruses were caught as spam.

January didn't work, and I didn't notice for most of the month.  What
was happening was that the script was taking forever, and not completing
for the script ran again the next night.

I copied my spam folder to my local machine and ran the script again,
with much the same result.  I ran SystInternals.com's FileMon and found
that McAfee's scan.exe was reading the current folder and the root of
the drive bazillions of times.  With a small-ish corpus, these
extraneous reads made no difference to the scan time.  With a large
number of files in a directory with a very large number of files, the
scan wasn't worth running.

So just at the end of last week, I modified the script to use F-Prot
instead of McAfee, and that has been working fine.

Andrew 8)

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bill Landry
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 7:04 AM
To: Declude.Virus@declude.com
Subject: Re: [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash


Although I cannot explain the cause of the issues you've seen, I would
suggest that you upgrade your scan engine:
http://www.mcafeesecurity.com/us/downloads/default.asp?wt.mc_n=us_update
swt.mc_t=ext_li_concid=10373.
Download and run the SuperDat, file which contains the latest dat and
engine updates (version 4400\4426).

Bill
- Original Message - 
From: "Matt" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Declude.Virus@declude.com
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 6:27 AM
Subject: [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash


  
  
I've never seen this before, but beginning on Saturday morning, I 
started getting appearances of "Application Error" in my Event Log 
about
McAfee:


Faulting application Scan.exe, version 4.3.2.0, faulting module 
mcscan32.dll, version 4.3.2.0, fault address 0x0001cfd0.


Then this morning the POP3 service started also giving errors in 
addition to McAfee:


Faulting application POP3d32.exe, version 12.11.9.8, faulting module 
POP3d32.exe, version 12.11.9.8, fault address 0x00010bcb.


The POP3 service had in fact crashed and it needed to be restarted (I 
rebooted just to be safe).  I believe that this is the first time that

  
  
  
  
I have ever seen the POP3 service crash.  Although I don't believe 
that POP3 has anything direct relationship to McAfee on my server 
since that app is only used as a command line scanner, I'm quite 
suspicious of this causing the issue.

Has anyone else seen either one of these errors on their systems?

Thanks,

Matt

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RE: [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash

2005-02-07 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message



I 
don't mean scanning the files in the root repetitively. In 
particular, FileMon was showing me that scan.exe was READing D:\ (as opposed to 
OPEN, CLOSE, QUERY INFORMATION, or SET INFORMATION - all of which are other 
request types that FileMon can log). 

Actually, it might have been D: instead of D:\ ... I'm not sure 
now.My conclusionwas thatit was re-reading the contents 
of the directory over and over. As you suggest, using the /exclude 
parameter to excerpt the root of the drive may have helped.

The 
scan.exe file is dated October 2004, and my script was certainly working before 
and after that date, so it is also possible that a hotfix applied in late 
December or early January changed the behaviour of some API that scan.exe uses; 
I really don't know how much a DAT file can control the scanning behaviour, but 
the DATs are the only part of the McAfee client that 
changed!

Andrew 
8)

  
  -Original Message-From: 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
  Behalf Of MattSent: Monday, February 07, 2005 10:35 
  AMTo: Declude.Virus@declude.comSubject: Re: 
  [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service 
  crashAndrew,When you say "reading the root of the 
  drive" do you mean the boot sector, or the files contained in the root of C: 
  or the drive that was defined in the command line? And also just to 
  clarify, "reading" in this case meaning "scanning", correct?Seems like 
  being able to turn that off, or at least remove files from the root might make 
  a big performance difference when you have high 
  volume.Thanks,MattColbeck, Andrew wrote: 
  FWIW, I recently ran into a weirdness with McAfee; I use the daily dat
download (engine plus dats), and have so for some months.  What I do is
for reporting completeness, I do a nightly scan of my spam folder to
find out how many viruses were caught as spam.

January didn't work, and I didn't notice for most of the month.  What
was happening was that the script was taking forever, and not completing
for the script ran again the next night.

I copied my spam folder to my local machine and ran the script again,
with much the same result.  I ran SystInternals.com's FileMon and found
that McAfee's scan.exe was reading the current folder and the root of
the drive bazillions of times.  With a small-ish corpus, these
extraneous reads made no difference to the scan time.  With a large
number of files in a directory with a very large number of files, the
scan wasn't worth running.

So just at the end of last week, I modified the script to use F-Prot
instead of McAfee, and that has been working fine.

Andrew 8)

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bill Landry
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 7:04 AM
To: Declude.Virus@declude.com
Subject: Re: [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash


Although I cannot explain the cause of the issues you've seen, I would
suggest that you upgrade your scan engine:
http://www.mcafeesecurity.com/us/downloads/default.asp?wt.mc_n=us_update
swt.mc_t=ext_li_concid=10373.
Download and run the SuperDat, file which contains the latest dat and
engine updates (version 4400\4426).

Bill
- Original Message - 
From: "Matt" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Declude.Virus@declude.com
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 6:27 AM
Subject: [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash


  
I've never seen this before, but beginning on Saturday morning, I 
started getting appearances of "Application Error" in my Event Log 
about
McAfee:


Faulting application Scan.exe, version 4.3.2.0, faulting module 
mcscan32.dll, version 4.3.2.0, fault address 0x0001cfd0.


Then this morning the POP3 service started also giving errors in 
addition to McAfee:


Faulting application POP3d32.exe, version 12.11.9.8, faulting module 
POP3d32.exe, version 12.11.9.8, fault address 0x00010bcb.


The POP3 service had in fact crashed and it needed to be restarted (I 
rebooted just to be safe).  I believe that this is the first time that

  
I have ever seen the POP3 service crash.  Although I don't believe 
that POP3 has anything direct relationship to McAfee on my server 
since that app is only used as a command line scanner, I'm quite 
suspicious of this causing the issue.

Has anyone else seen either one of these errors on their systems?

Thanks,

Matt

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RE: [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash

2005-02-07 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Title: Message



I 
should have also mentioned that the script first makes a list of the files to 
scan, then tells scan.exe to scan the files in the list.

I 
don't just tell scan.exe to scan the folder (if I had, I could buy the behaviour 
of reading the directory over and over again).

Andrew 
8)

  
  -Original Message-From: 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
  Behalf Of Colbeck, AndrewSent: Monday, February 07, 2005 10:54 
  AMTo: Declude.Virus@declude.comSubject: RE: 
  [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash
  I 
  don't mean scanning the files in the root repetitively. In 
  particular, FileMon was showing me that scan.exe was READing D:\ (as opposed 
  to OPEN, CLOSE, QUERY INFORMATION, or SET INFORMATION - all of which are other 
  request types that FileMon can log). 
  
  Actually, it might have been D: instead of D:\ ... I'm not sure 
  now.My conclusionwas thatit was re-reading the 
  contents of the directory over and over. As you suggest, using the 
  /exclude parameter to excerpt the root of the drive may have 
  helped.
  
  The 
  scan.exe file is dated October 2004, and my script was certainly working 
  before and after that date, so it is also possible that a hotfix 
  applied in late December or early January changed the behaviour of some API 
  that scan.exe uses; I really don't know how much a DAT file can control the 
  scanning behaviour, but the DATs are the only part of the McAfee client that 
  changed!
  
  Andrew 8)
  

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
On Behalf Of MattSent: Monday, February 07, 2005 10:35 
AMTo: Declude.Virus@declude.comSubject: Re: 
[Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service 
crashAndrew,When you say "reading the root of 
the drive" do you mean the boot sector, or the files contained in the root 
of C: or the drive that was defined in the command line? And also just 
to clarify, "reading" in this case meaning "scanning", correct?Seems 
like being able to turn that off, or at least remove files from the root 
might make a big performance difference when you have high 
volume.Thanks,MattColbeck, Andrew wrote: 
FWIW, I recently ran into a weirdness with McAfee; I use the daily dat
download (engine plus dats), and have so for some months.  What I do is
for reporting completeness, I do a nightly scan of my spam folder to
find out how many viruses were caught as spam.

January didn't work, and I didn't notice for most of the month.  What
was happening was that the script was taking forever, and not completing
for the script ran again the next night.

I copied my spam folder to my local machine and ran the script again,
with much the same result.  I ran SystInternals.com's FileMon and found
that McAfee's scan.exe was reading the current folder and the root of
the drive bazillions of times.  With a small-ish corpus, these
extraneous reads made no difference to the scan time.  With a large
number of files in a directory with a very large number of files, the
scan wasn't worth running.

So just at the end of last week, I modified the script to use F-Prot
instead of McAfee, and that has been working fine.

Andrew 8)

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bill Landry
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 7:04 AM
To: Declude.Virus@declude.com
Subject: Re: [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash


Although I cannot explain the cause of the issues you've seen, I would
suggest that you upgrade your scan engine:
http://www.mcafeesecurity.com/us/downloads/default.asp?wt.mc_n=us_update
swt.mc_t=ext_li_concid=10373.
Download and run the SuperDat, file which contains the latest dat and
engine updates (version 4400\4426).

Bill
- Original Message - 
From: "Matt" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Declude.Virus@declude.com
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 6:27 AM
Subject: [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash


  
  I've never seen this before, but beginning on Saturday morning, I 
started getting appearances of "Application Error" in my Event Log 
about
McAfee:


Faulting application Scan.exe, version 4.3.2.0, faulting module 
mcscan32.dll, version 4.3.2.0, fault address 0x0001cfd0.


Then this morning the POP3 service started also giving errors in 
addition to McAfee:


Faulting application POP3d32.exe, version 12.11.9.8, faulting module 
POP3d32.exe, version 12.11.9.8, fault address 0x00010bcb.


The POP3 service had in fact crashed and it needed to be restarted (I 
rebooted just to be safe).  I believe that this is the first time that

  
  I have ever seen the POP3 service crash.  Although I don't believe 
that POP3 has anything direct relationship to McAfee on my server 
since that app is only used as a command line scanner, I'm quite 
suspicious of this causing the issue.

Has anyone else seen either one of these errors on their systems?

Thanks,

Matt

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Re: [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash

2005-02-07 Thread Matt
Title: Message




Sounds like it's worth a test and some monitoring just to see if there
is a measurable difference in mail scanning activities.

Thanks for sharing.

Matt



Colbeck, Andrew wrote:

  
  
  
  I should have also mentioned that the script
first makes a list of the files to scan, then tells scan.exe to scan
the files in the list.
  
  I don't just tell scan.exe to scan the folder
(if I had, I could buy the behaviour of reading the directory over and
over again).
  
  Andrew 8)
  
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Colbeck,
Andrew
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 10:54 AM
To: Declude.Virus@declude.com
Subject: RE: [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash


I don't mean scanning the files in the
root repetitively. In particular, FileMon was showing me that scan.exe
was READing D:\ (as opposed to OPEN, CLOSE, QUERY INFORMATION, or SET
INFORMATION - all of which are other request types that FileMon can
log). 

Actually, it might have been D: instead of D:\
... I'm not sure now.My conclusionwas thatit was re-reading the
contents of the directory over and over. As you suggest, using the
/exclude parameter to excerpt the root of the drive may have helped.

The scan.exe file is dated October 2004, and my
script was certainly working before and after that date, so it is also possible
that a hotfix applied in late December or early January changed the
behaviour of some API that scan.exe uses; I really don't know how much
a DAT file can control the scanning behaviour, but the DATs are the
only part of the McAfee client that changed!

Andrew 8)

  -Original Message-
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Matt
  Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 10:35 AM
  To: Declude.Virus@declude.com
  Subject: Re: [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash
  
  
Andrew,
  
When you say "reading the root of the drive" do you mean the boot
sector, or the files contained in the root of C: or the drive that was
defined in the command line? And also just to clarify, "reading" in
this case meaning "scanning", correct?
  
Seems like being able to turn that off, or at least remove files from
the root might make a big performance difference when you have high
volume.
  
Thanks,
  
Matt
  
  
  
Colbeck, Andrew wrote:
  
FWIW, I recently ran into a weirdness with McAfee; I use the daily dat
download (engine plus dats), and have so for some months.  What I do is
for reporting completeness, I do a nightly scan of my spam folder to
find out how many viruses were caught as spam.

January didn't work, and I didn't notice for most of the month.  What
was happening was that the script was taking forever, and not completing
for the script ran again the next night.

I copied my spam folder to my local machine and ran the script again,
with much the same result.  I ran SystInternals.com's FileMon and found
that McAfee's scan.exe was reading the current folder and the root of
the drive bazillions of times.  With a small-ish corpus, these
extraneous reads made no difference to the scan time.  With a large
number of files in a directory with a very large number of files, the
scan wasn't worth running.

So just at the end of last week, I modified the script to use F-Prot
instead of McAfee, and that has been working fine.

Andrew 8)

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bill Landry
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 7:04 AM
To: Declude.Virus@declude.com
Subject: Re: [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash


Although I cannot explain the cause of the issues you've seen, I would
suggest that you upgrade your scan engine:
http://www.mcafeesecurity.com/us/downloads/default.asp?wt.mc_n=us_update
swt.mc_t=ext_li_concid=10373.
Download and run the SuperDat, file which contains the latest dat and
engine updates (version 4400\4426).

Bill
- Original Message - 
From: "Matt" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Declude.Virus@declude.com
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 6:27 AM
Subject: [Declude.Virus] McAfee and POP3 service crash


  

  I've never seen this before, but beginning on Saturday morning, I 
started getting appearances of "Application Error" in my Event Log 
about
McAfee:


Faulting application Scan.exe, version 4.3.2.0, faulting module 
mcscan32.dll, version 4.3.2.0, fault address 0x0001cfd0.


Then this morning the POP3 service started also giving errors in 
addition to McAfee:


Faulting application POP3d32.exe, version 12.11.9.8, faulting module 
POP3d32.exe, version 12.11.9.8, fault address 0x00010bcb.


The POP3 service had in fact crashed and it needed to be restarted (I 
rebooted just to be safe).  I believe that this is the first time that



  

  I have ever seen the POP3 service crash.  Although I don't