Due to McAfee not releasing DAT Files for Virex Egines older than 4400 anymore, and engine 4400 and up having lost the DeMime command line option, i have decided to not invest any more time in keeping CGVirusscan alive.
Everyone on the CGVirusscan list agreed.
Since there is ClamAV, which is a perfect Anti Virus Solution, this shouldn't leave anyone on a Mac without a decent AV Solution.
It's been a fun ride but I guess it's time to say good bye ;-)
After all cgvirusscan wasn't my baby anyway and it was almost dead already
before I reanimated it...
So: CGVirusscan is dead -- long live ClamAV.
The easiest way to get going with ClamAV and CommuniGate Pro seems to be MPP free. I am using cgpav which might not be as easy to install, but works dandy.
Enjoy!
NAI decided, that recent dat files will no longer work with virex engine older than 4400 (as it seems). Problem is, 4400 lost the --mime option which is needed for cgvirusscan. So currently, this puts cgvirusscan out of order. We're working on a solution.
Do not install Virex 7.5 or download Engine updates via Versiontracker.com or such as this would effectively break cgvirusscan.
In Virex 7.5 the --mime command line option of vscanx (or uvscan) has been removed (for whatever reason). This option is needed to unpack mime encoded messages and attachments. Without --mime basicaly all virus infected mails will slip through unitentified.
The CGVirusscan package has been updated. Due to the change to Perl 5.8 in Mac OS X 10.3, the updatevirex.pl script didn't work anymore.
The updated package contains a fixed version of updatevirex.pl which should run fine on Mac OS X 10.3 and lower.
Since it seems John Ray isn't updating CGvirusscan anymore, i finally took the time to do some needed updates to it myself. I do hope that is OK with him.
So here it is.
Changes:- Got rid of munpack as it often crashes.
- Updated it to support CommuniGate's EXT Filter API 2, so you can decide if poisoned mails get bounced or silently discarded.
- Tweaked a few other bits and pieces and cleaned forking.
- Added a simple installation script.
THIS Release does NOT contain a threaded version anymore because i am too lazy to maintain two versions and i figured no one has a threaded perl version on osx anyway...
To adjust if virusscan boundes or discards poisoned mails, edit virusscan-fork.pl with BBedit or Pico and modify LINE 16 to:
$bounces=0(to DELETE)
$bounces=1
(to BOUNCE)
Since i updated the EXT Filter support, i am NOT SURE if this will run on CGP before 4.X Versions. I could only test it on a 4.0.6 Version.
How to install:Download the Archive from: here
Open a Terminal Window (using Terminal.app).
Assuming you downloaded this archive to your DESKTOP, Type:-
cd ~/Desktop/
tar -xzf cgvirusscan.tar.gz
cd cgvirusscan
READ the README File!!!!
(more " README")
