Sophos and Sobig

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Aug 21 11:44:54 IST 2003


They should both be scanning, and both reporting.

You're not the only person to say that Sophos isn't detecting Sobig, all I
can say is that my Sophos installation is getting all of them. Maybe
there's a problem with a specific version on a specific architecture?

At 03:41 21/08/2003, you wrote:
>Curiosity..
>
>  If you have 2 virus scanners, do they both report the same virus if they
>  are both used on a message??
>
>  I was using Sophos, installed F-Prot as security RE: the recent postings
>  about Sophos missing these, and had F-Prot catch Sobig, but nothing from
>  Sophos?
>
>  Virus Scanning: F-Prot found virus W32/Sobig.F at mm
>
>Cheers!
>Hendrik

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