Re: sophie not detecting some viruses

I have the same situation as you.
I am running Sophie-3.04rc1 with Sophos 3.77b on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p1

Sweep can detect the virus, but Sophie can not.

Rex

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Markus Stumpf" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 10:38 AM
Subject: [vtools] sophie not detecting some viruses


> I am running sophie-3.02 on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE.
> sophie is linked against (the newest) libsavi.so.3.2.07.040 (3.77b)
>
> Today I discovered that if using sweep it discovers
>      SWEEP virus detection utility
>      Version 3.77, January 2004 [FreeBSD/Intel]
>      Includes detection for 86890 viruses, trojans and worms
>      Command line qualifiers
are: -f -sc -rec -cab -f -archive -loopback -tnef
>      [ ... ]
>      >>> Virus 'Troj/Sefex-A' found in file Profile-720974.html
>
> However using sophie:
>     /var/qmail/antivirus/bin/scan_file /var/run/sophie
$PWD/Profile-720974.html
>     FILE NOT INFECTED: [/tmp/photo/Profile-720974.html]
>
> All options are set to '1' but
>     Option 'GrpSuper' set to '0'
>     Option 'GrpDisinfect' set to '0'
>     Option 'MaxRecursionDepth' set to '16'
>
> I have copied the infected file to
>     http://www.space.net/~maex/Profile-720974.html.bin  (19755 bytes)
>
> Does scanning this file work for you?
> Does anyone have an idea what might be the problem?
>
> Thanks,
> \Maex
>
> P.S. I am aware we're not running the newest version of sophie, but
>      the fixes don't read like they'd have influence on the problem.
>
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