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On Saturday 24 Jan 2004 2:17 pm, David Bell wrote:
I have just carried out a first scan using BitDefender AV. The log below includes an <I/O errors> entry. What does it mean?
Usually happens when a file is changed during access. I can't find much on the bitdefender site - the PDF won't download from the link using Konqueror. http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/support.php?menu_id=15# (probably because it isn't a real link to a real file using broken Javascript). Mozilla got it OK (3MB and annoyingly .zip instead of .gz). I presume from the documentation that you are actually using BitDefender on Windows, not on Linux with Sendmail. http://www.bitdefender.com/index.php?tab=2 (That's why this reply is marked OT - off-topic). Your I/O errors could therefore be caused by any number of malware programs on your Windows box, by corruptions on the partition that Scandisk cannot solve or any number of other Windows-only afflictions. (BTW. BitDefender for Linux doesn't have a very nice licence.) The Linux documentation is 23kb instead of the Windows 3MB (wouldn't you just know it!) and consists of a nasty licence and a bare man page. It's 90% licence, 10% info. There's a GPL program that will do the job at SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/amavis/ Looks quite useful and is being actively developed. It also allows you to use a wide variety of AV scanners, depending on your choice of subscription and the open AV solution is in development: http://www.openantivirus.org/ or there's another one: http://www.decros.cz/~reho/check_virus/ (some of the links are in Russian though!) That's just a quick look - there's probably a lot more out there. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk/ http://www.dclug.org.uk/ http://www.isbn.org.uk/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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