newbie question

[Bill]

there are 4 test files and I used them all. The mailscanner cought them and
mailed me back sayin I sent a few viruses. Thanks for the tip! The
mailscanner is working great.

On Star Date Wednesday 15 May 2002 08:44 am, Julian Field sent this sub-space
message.

> At 16:40 15/05/2002, you wrote:
> >I can send you the klex virus I got in my yahoo mail account. I've been
> >using that for testing.
>
> The Eicar test file (totally harmless but detected by all the scanners)
> would be a better choice for this. You can download it from www.eicar.org.
>
> >On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 11:23, Bill wrote:
> > > Is there a log file showing what the mailscanner has done as far as
> > > emails scanned attachements scanned ? How do I know mailscanner is
> > > actually
> >
> > doing a
> >
> > > virus scan and not just passing the email on for delivery. Im using
> >
> > f-prot as
> >
> > > the virus scanner. Is there a way to test that the whole system is
> > > working correctly?
> >
> >--
> >-=/>Thom
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