Interoperability Vscan NT and ASDU

From: Thomas.Meyer <meyert_at_dla-marbach.de>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:13:18 +0100

Dear alpha-osf-managers,

we are using Network Associates' Virus Scan for Windows NT 3.2.0 (also
the hot fix upgrading the scanning engine to 3.2.1) on a Windows NT 4.0
SP3 machine to scan files on shares offered by a machine running Digital
UNIX 4.0D and Advanced Server for Digital UNIX (ASDU) 4.0A.

We are observing the following interoperability problem:

All files scanned by Vscan NT not only get their "date of last access"
updated (as seen by "ls -ltu") but also their "date of last inode
modification" (as seen by "ls -ltc").

The "date of last file modification" (as seen by "ls -lt") is -as
expected- unaffected.

Why should I bother? Because the "date of last inode modification" makes
files elibigle for backup, so that incremental backups "blow up".

Although we have the workaround to create special shares with R/O access
for Administrators, virus scans still make the alerter service nervous,
reporting thousands of access-denied errors in the audit trail.

The problem doesn't exist with Win95 and Vscan for Win95 V3.1.9

I wonder if others observe similar problems.

Regards,

        Thomas Meyer, EDV-Systemadministrator
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