EMERGENCY: MyParty

Martin Sapsed m.sapsed at BANGOR.AC.UK
Mon Jan 28 17:19:24 GMT 2002


Julian Field wrote:
> There is one new configuration variable "Scan All Messages" which forces it
> to even scan plain-text messages which were previously thought to be
> perfectly harmless (and have proved to be until now). The default is "yes"
> so don't worry if you forget to update your mailscanner.conf.
>
> This will unfortunately cause an increase in the system load on your
> MailScanner servers, as now every plain-text message will be scanned as
> well as every MIME message.

I don't understand! (Nothing new there!) The Sophos information on MyParty
suggests that the executable is just another executable attachment. Have I
missed something?

Cheers,

Martin

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