Mailscanner doesn't detect virus

Stuart Luppescu s-luppescu at UCHICAGO.EDU
Thu Jan 17 16:14:18 GMT 2002


One of our users got an attachment with the W32/Magister.dam3 virus, but
MailScanner passed it with ``found to be clean'' in the header. When I
run mcafeewrapper on the attachment by hand it gives:
        Found the W32/Magistr.dam3 virus !!!
MailScanner otherwise seems to be working correctly -- it detects a
virus every day or so. Just this one got by. I even tested it by
attaching it to a message and sending it to myself and it again was not
detected. 

Does anyone know what's going on?

(I'm running MailScanner 3.02 on RedHat Linux 6.2 with McAfee and daily
updates.)
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Stuart Luppescu -=- s-luppescu at uchicago.edu        
University of Chicago -=- CCSR 
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Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.   --
 T.S. Eliot, "Philip Massinger" 
 

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