Goner-A problems

Paul hyooga at WT.NET
Wed Dec 5 23:45:13 GMT 2001


On Wednesday 05 December 2001 12:38 pm, you wrote:

Oh Solaris 8 and redhat 7.2 with MailScanner 2.60 all work fine. Servers been
catching it.

Paul

> Julian
>
>    I am catching it just fine. I am using Redhat 7.1 operating system
> with the latest mailscanner installed. Let me know if I can help any.
>
>
>
> Darrin
>
> On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 12:16, Julian Field wrote:
> > MailScanner seems to be having some problems catching the Goner-A virus.
> > On my systems it appears to miss it, so presumably the MIME decoding is
> > failing to work properly on it.
> >
> > Until I manage to find the cause and publish the fix, I strongly advise
> > you to warn your users about this problem.
> >
> > Sorry about this, it's the first time it has happened and I will try to
> > find a fix as fast as I can. Anyone else who wants to join the bug hunt
> > is welcome to try too! I have already contacted the author of the
> > MIME-tools module to see if he responds with any ideas.
> >
> > Sorry again folks :-(
> >
> > If you have managed to catch it, I would be very interested to hear
> > exactly what versions of the MIME-tools module you are using. It may be a
> > bug only present in some versions.
> > --
> > Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> > jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> > Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
> >                              Southampton SO17 1BJ



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