[AMaViS-bugs] McAfee uvscan misbehavior

[Viraj A. <val...@if...>]

I noticed a strange thing with McAfee uvscan on Linux v4.10.0

By default it seems to be scanning the boot records of all drives,
contrary to what it says in the manual as this option defaulting to off.
When executing uvscan with all of the options that Amavis v0.2.1 is
sending, I was getting some cdrom seek errors in my messages file (don't
ask me why it's trying to scan a CDROM!):

Nov 15 09:23:28 mail kernel: hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 {
DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Nov 15 09:23:28 mail kernel: hdc: packet command error: error=0x54
Nov 15 09:23:29 mail kernel: ATAPI device hdc:
Nov 15 09:23:29 mail kernel:   Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
Nov 15 09:23:29 mail kernel:   Invalid field in command packet --
(asc=0x24, ascq=0x00)
Nov 15 09:23:29 mail kernel:   The failed "Start/Stop Unit" packet command
was:
Nov 15 09:23:29 mail kernel:   "1b 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
Nov 15 09:23:29 mail kernel: cdrom: open failed.

By adding the --noboot option to uvscan, it stopped doing this. I changed
the corresponding line in scanmails to:

uvscan4_cmdl="--secure -rv --summary --noboot"

And everything seems ok now.

Viraj.