Archive Files

[Julian Field]

At 18:03 20/08/2003, you wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>Ive got a few questions about archives. I am using Sophos for my
>scanner, and i see that it only supports a few archive types. I would
>imagine that i would want to scan as many archives as possible.

About the only one Sophos can't do yet is RAR version 3. It does all the
others.

>Is there a way to have mailscanner unpack files before we scan them?

No, but you could add another virus scanning engine that can do RAR 3. Can
eTrust do it? That costs virtually nothing.

>My security guy is not liking the idea that it dosent do *every* file
>type. I need an answer for him so i can implement this software.

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