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Re: Exchange crashes after 4.8.1049 program update
« Reply #15 on: December 07, 2008, 05:16:17 AM »
The problem continues, and the pattern is the same.

First a refresh of IMF:

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Event Type:   Information
Event Source:   MSExchangeTransport
Event Category:   SMTP Protocol
Event ID:   7513
Date:      12/6/2008
Time:      12:35:30 PM
User:      N/A
Computer:   SBS2003
Description:
Microsoft Exchange Intelligent Message Filter was refreshed. Microsoft Exchange Intelligent Message Filter is now enabled. A refresh occurs when the SMTP service is  restarted or Microsoft Exchange Intelligent Message Filter is updated.

Then a failure of Avast;

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Event Type:   Error
Event Source:   MSExchangeTransport
Event Category:   Exchange Store Driver
Event ID:   348
Date:      12/6/2008
Time:      12:45:28 PM
User:      N/A
Computer:   SBS2003
Description:
A message could not be virus scanned - this operation will be retried later. Internet Message ID <...>, Error Code 0x0.

Restarting the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service corrects the problem temporarily.
« Last Edit: December 07, 2008, 05:21:08 AM by kwg »

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Re: Exchange crashes after 4.8.1049 program update
« Reply #16 on: December 08, 2008, 06:26:47 PM »
Update: The problem continues exactly as described above.

kwg

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Re: Exchange crashes after 4.8.1049 program update
« Reply #17 on: December 08, 2008, 09:46:27 PM »
In addition, I sometimes see these messages in the Application log soon before mail delivery stops and the Avast Exchange provider becomes disabled:

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Event Type:   Error
Event Source:   Application Error
Event Category:   (100)
Event ID:   1000
Date:      12/8/2008
Time:      9:14:21 AM
User:      N/A
Computer:   SBS2003
Description:
Faulting application store.exe, version 6.5.7653.38, faulting module AvExVxx2.dll, version 4.8.1296.0, fault address 0x00005b7e.

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Event Type:   Information
Event Source:   Application Error
Event Category:   (100)
Event ID:   1004
Date:      12/8/2008
Time:      12:18:26 PM
User:      N/A
Computer:   SBS2003
Description:
Reporting queued error: faulting application store.exe, version 6.5.7653.38, faulting module AvExVxx2.dll, version 4.8.1296.0, fault address 0x00005b7e.

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Re: Exchange crashes after 4.8.1049 program update
« Reply #18 on: December 09, 2008, 01:12:35 PM »
Update: It is now Day 5 with this problem. Still no resolution.

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Re: Exchange crashes after 4.8.1049 program update
« Reply #19 on: December 09, 2008, 04:17:59 PM »
Please check your email. Thanks.
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Re: Exchange crashes after 4.8.1049 program update
« Reply #20 on: December 09, 2008, 06:21:39 PM »
I am having exactly the same problem. Does anyone have a fix ?

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Re: Exchange crashes after 4.8.1049 program update
« Reply #21 on: December 09, 2008, 08:13:14 PM »
I am having exactly the same problem. Does anyone have a fix ?

Awil has written a fix, which I am currently testing for them. So far, so good.

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Re: Exchange crashes after 4.8.1049 program update
« Reply #22 on: December 09, 2008, 10:32:48 PM »
David, are you also getting the "Microsoft Exchange Intelligent Message Filter was refreshed" message just before the problem starts taking place?

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Re: Exchange crashes after 4.8.1049 program update
« Reply #23 on: December 10, 2008, 09:38:49 AM »
Vlk,

Here's a very interesting observation:

1. IMF updates are issued by Microsoft only two times per month.

2. Before the Avast 4.8.1049 upgrade, the ID 7513 events occurred only a few times each month.

3. After the Avast 4.8.1049 upgrade, the ID 7513 events are occurring every two hours almost exactly (plus or minus a few minutes each time).

I suspect, therefore, that Avast 4.8.1049 is somehow causing the ID 7513 events every two hours, perhaps by restarting the SMTP service. In other words, the ID 7513 events are a symptom of a problem in Avast which occurs every two hours, not the cause of the problem.

What does Avast do every two hours, plus or minus a few minutes? Does Avast attempt a VPS update? Is the SMTP service involved?

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Re: Exchange crashes after 4.8.1049 program update
« Reply #24 on: December 10, 2008, 11:59:20 AM »
I'm experiencing the same problem. Running a SBS2003. Since the Avast update, Exchange hangs up with error code 348: "A message could not be virus scanned - this operation will be retried later. Internet Message ID  <...>"

As kwg wrote, restarting the Exchange Information Store service helps for a while.

But here seems no correlation to event ID 7513. I have no 7513 entries in the logs. But ID 9661 which says "standard filtering level for unrequested commercial e-mail has been updated. The new value is 8." (sorry for translation, I have German language event logs ;))

Is there a fix available, yet?

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Re: Exchange crashes after 4.8.1049 program update
« Reply #25 on: December 10, 2008, 03:05:40 PM »
I have the same problem after update from 4.7 to 4.8. Server 2003 with Exchange server 2003 SP2.
I've just deinstalled AVAST and now for 3 hours no problems, otherwise I had to restart Information Store and AVAST engine every 2 hours. I will reinstall when a fix is availlable.

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Re: Exchange crashes after 4.8.1049 program update
« Reply #26 on: December 10, 2008, 06:27:15 PM »
Guys,

it would be helpful if you could create a dump of the store.exe process at the moment the problem is simulated.
To do this, please download http://public.avast.com/~vlk/userdump.exe

Once the problem is simulated, run

userdump store.exe c:\store.dmp

This will create a file store.dmp in C:\ (a memory dump of the Exchange IS process). Zip it and upload it to ftp://ftp.avast.com/incoming (please note that you won't have READ access to the ftp site, just WRITE).


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Re: Exchange crashes after 4.8.1049 program update
« Reply #27 on: December 11, 2008, 07:51:59 AM »
I did send Vlk a dump created just 5 seconds after the event occurred. Since the dump is half a gigabyte in size, and the Avast "Incoming" directory is write-only, I don't know yet whether my upload was successful.
« Last Edit: December 11, 2008, 07:55:40 AM by kwg »

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Re: Exchange crashes after 4.8.1049 program update
« Reply #28 on: December 11, 2008, 10:40:36 AM »
We are now also seeing this problem on 2 customers' servers.  It's very bad.  Has anyone tried turning off IMF to see if that helps?

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Edmund

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Re: Exchange crashes after 4.8.1049 program update
« Reply #29 on: December 11, 2008, 02:50:19 PM »
Hello!

This one is a massive problem!!!!

I have got 12 (twelve!!!!) customers out there which cannot receive mails since the update - same error as mentioned above.

What i have already tried:
- restart services: no effect
- uninstall avast scanner & reboot: mails can be received again - but no virus scanning of course
- reinstall avast server edition (SBS & standard versions): works for about 3 hours - then same error again
- deactivated IMF & restarted services: works for 4-5 mails; then crashes again

So currently, only UNINSTALLING avast scanner brings back a functional solution -
we REALLY need a patch on this !!!!