Amavis end of life problem @ debian 5

Hi to everybody.
I want to alert you about this problem that happens to me since yesterday night.
I've the perfect server ISPConfig 3 with Debian Lenny.
Since yesterday night I saw that all the emails sent or received was in mailqueue.
In mail queue log I can see this error:

Code:

898239F58 7231 Fri Apr 16 06:33:12 [email protected]
(host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 451-4.5.0 Error in processing, id=22088-03-2, virus_scan FAILED: virus_scan: ALL VIRUS SCANNERS FAILED: ClamAV-clamd av-scanner FAILED: run_av error: Too many retries to talk to /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl (Can't connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: No such file or directory) at (eval 100) line 309.; ClamAV-clamscan av-scanner FAILED: /usr/bin/clamscan unexpected exit 50, output="LibClamAV Warning: *********************************************************** 451-4.5.0 LibClamAV Warning: *** This version of the ClamAV engine is outdated. *** 451-4.5.0 LibClamAV Warning: *** DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq *** 451-4.5.0 LibClamAV Warning: *********************************************************** 451-4.5.0 LibClamAV Error: cli_hex2str(): Malformed hexstring: This ClamAV version has reached End of Life! Please upgrade to version 0.95 or later. For more information see www.clamav.net/eol-clamav-094 and www.clamav.net/download (length: 169) 451-4.5.0 LibClamAV Error: Problem parsing database at line 742 451-4.5.0 LibClamAV Error: Can't load daily.ndb: Malformed database 451-4.5.0 LibClamAV Error: cli_tgzload: Can't load daily.ndb 451-4.5.0 LibClamAV Error: Can't load /var/lib/clamav//daily.cld: Malformed database 451 4.5.0 ERROR: Malformed database" at (eval 100) line 527. (in reply to end of DATA command))
[email protected]

Googleing a bit I've found this post: http://openwallet.de/?p=275

So I've followed it and it seems to work now (is still flushing the emails in queue).
Anybody with the same problem?

Thanks
Michele

 

Hello Michele,

Thx for linking my post. I've got 750 accesses since 01:00 o'clock this night. So we are not the only one

greetings from germany, µatthias

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Hi µatthias,
yes, it seems to be quite a lot of people with this problem...

Anyway almost all the queue has been flushed... there are just few emails with this error message:

Code:

992D224A2    162077 Thu Apr 15 21:52:11  [email protected]
(host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 451-4.5.0 Error in processing, id=29333-16, virus_scan FAILED: virus_scan: ALL VIRUS SCANNERS FAILED: ClamAV-clamd av-scanner FAILED: run_av error: Too many retries to talk to /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl (Can't connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: No such file or directory) at (eval 100) line 309.; ClamAV-clamscan av-scanner FAILED: /usr/bin/clamscan unexpected exit 1, output="WARNING: Ignoring deprecated option --disable-summary 451-4.5.0 LibClamAV Warning: *********************************************************** 451-4.5.0 LibClamAV Warning: ***  This version of the ClamAV engine is outdated.     *** 451-4.5.0 LibClamAV Warning: *** DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq *** 451-4.5.0 LibClamAV Warning: *********************************************************** 451-4.5.0 /var/lib/amavis/tmp/amavis-20100416T131357-29333/parts/p001: OK 451-4.5.0 /var/lib/amavis/tmp/amavis-20100416T131357-29333/parts/p004: Trojan.FakeAV-3236 FOUND 451-4.5.0  451-4.5.0 ----------- SCAN SUMMARY ----------- 451-4.5.0 Known viruses: 756080 451-4.5.0 Engine version: 0.95.3 451-4.5.0 Scanned directories: 1 451-4.5.0 Scanned files: 2 451-4.5.0 Infected files: 1 451-4.5.0 Data scanned: 0.14 MB 451-4.5.0 Data read: 0.14 MB (ratio 1.00:1) 451 4.5.0 Time: 2.474 sec (0 m 2 s)" at (eval 100) line 527. (in reply to end of DATA command))
                                         [email protected]

Any idea?

Thanks
Michele

 

that's the only thing I've asked myself this night
greetings from germany µatthias

@michele: but explizit the eMail, which generates the error log is going well through the scan? please try some antivirus testfile: http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm