Version 3 improved virus reports

Andy Humberston iah at DMU.AC.UK
Thu Oct 10 09:54:17 IST 2002


Julian,

Just installed it, the messages being sent to
postmaster certainly have the full report.  I'm
trying to contact a user now to see if their
message is the same.

Oddly enough I was going to suggest this change
yesterday, but thought you had enough to do :)

Andy


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> Sent: 10 October 2002 00:31
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Version 3 improved virus reports
>
>
> Please can someone try this out for me and see if the results
> are better than they were before?
>
> I have changed the reporting slightly so that when there is a
> problem with the message (such as Microsoft insecurity
> exploit found), the report the user gets will contain *all*
> the reports for that message.
>
> This should greatly improve the usefulness of the report they
> get when a copy of Bugbear is found.
>
> I've done the same change to version 4 as well.
>
> The attached files are for version 3. If someone says they
> fix the problem, I will release a new copy of V3 and V4.
>
> So the faster someone tests it, the faster you get a new release :-)
>



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