Stuffit files (Macintosh specific)

[Julian Field]

At 00:14 08/11/2002, you wrote:
>On  W2k mail server that I also have, I run a mime decoder before running
>the virus scanner, would that be possible with MS?

MS decodes all the MIME messages anyway, it has to.


>Peter
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>On 7/11/2002 at 7:13 PM Julian Field wrote:
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> >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
> >                             Southampton SO17 1BJ

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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