Stuffit files (Macintosh specific)

[Peter Nitschke]

On  W2k mail server that I also have, I run a mime decoder before running
the virus scanner, would that be possible with MS?

Peter


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On 7/11/2002 at 7:13 PM Julian Field wrote:

>At 17:40 07/11/2002, you wrote:
>>Is there a way to make unpack and process .sit (StuffIt files), very
>>common in macintosh world?
>>I compressed eicar.com and it flew freely thru MailScanner nets.
>
>It's down to the virus scanners to scan inside archives. I suggest you ask
>the virus scanner vendor(s) if they can search inside Stuffit files,
>ideally they should do it.
>--
>Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
>jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
>Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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