Selectively quarantining on virus name

Andy Humberston iah at DMU.AC.UK
Thu Aug 21 12:42:58 IST 2003


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> Sent: 21 August 2003 12:32
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Selectively quarantining on virus name
>
>
> At 12:17 21/08/2003, you wrote:
> > > At 17:49 20/08/2003, you wrote:
> > > >        I presume that a rules file attached to the "Quarantine
> > > >Infections" option uses the usual From or To type rules?
> > >
> > > Yes, just like any other ruleset.
> >
> >I have created a quarantine.rules file and in it I have placed:
> >FromOrTo:       W32\/Sobig-F    no
>
> Eh? Rulesets test addresses, not virus names. "FromOrTo"
> doesn't make much sense with a virus name, does it?
>
> You can't currently selectively not archive something because
> of the particular virus in it.

That's what I thought, I must have got confused with relation to
your previous email :)

Can it be a feature-request for a future version?

Andy



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