As part of my research I am testing Avast! against a sizable collection of samples.
The odd thing is that while I can run my small script file very well from the commandline.
It does not like it when I start it from a crontab job and ends with a signal 6 on the first sample encoutered.
time nice /usr/bin/avast -a -c -r ${LOGFILE} ${WORKDIR}
And the crontab job results:
file infectd by: Enrico-609
Command terminated by signal 6
PS: If someone from Alwill itself is listening perhap they could try to contact me directly. I was unable to get a response for my antivirus research project which now compares 20 antivirus products on over 20000 samples (http://viruspool.vanderkooij.org/)
The probleems seems to me the program dies on a signal 6 when not executed from a commandline.
This looks more like a check in the software to prevent just this or a undocumented feature.
I tested it on my box and it seemed to be OK. So sorry for misunderstanding.
Can you tell me, what was your libavastengine.so library version and your linux distro? I think, the bug occured when the shared library was unloaded.
