Cry for help.

[Scott Adkins]

Yes, and I probably slid off course just a little on my reply.  What made
me take notice of the stripped attachments was the fact that some of the
emails were classified as spam and moved to my spam folder and others were
not.  The stripped attachments obviously brought the messages under the
size threshold for spam checking, but is also means that there isn't any
attachments to do virus scanning on... That was all I was wanting to say,
I just didn't say it :)

Scott

--On Monday, January 13, 2003 7:23 PM -0600 Mike Kercher 
<mike at CAMAROSS.NET> wrote:

> SpamAssassin doesn't have anything to do with the virus scanning.
> Attachments are virus scanned regardless of size...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Scott Adkins
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 12:24 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Cry for help.
>
>
> --On Monday, January 13, 2003 12:06 PM -0500 Steve Ellis
> <ellis at KAZAKCOMPOSITES.COM> wrote:
>
>> I'm curious as to what virus was being sent from thebig at boss.com
>> address. We received a few messages, but they were not detected as a
>> virus by the virus software we are using with MailScanner. Anyone have
>
>> a name for it?
>
> Are you sure that the attachment was in there with the virus?  I have
> seen a lot of copies of this email come through some mailing lists, but
> the attachments were stripped out of it.  In some cases, Spam Assassin
> has scored it with 5.5, 5.4 and 3.2 fairly consistent, depending on the
> mail headers, and when the attachment is left in place, it would not get
> checked at all due to file size.
>
> Scott
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