MailScanner not removing virus even though it was found?

[Peter Peters]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:35:42 +0100, you wrote:

>I'have just upgraded to the latest mailscan 4.22-5 from 4.13-x and
>I'm registering exatly the same problem:
>
>Jul 10 12:40:34 neutrino MailScanner[26052]: McAfee said
>"/home1/spool/MailScanner/incoming/26052/h6AAeWE00411/sirc-virus.zip/SIRC32-VIRUS.EXE"
>
>Jul 10 12:40:34 neutrino MailScanner[26052]: McAfee said "        Found the
>W32/SirCam at MM virus !!!"
>Jul 10 12:40:34 neutrino MailScanner[26052]:
>/home1/spool/MailScanner/incoming/26052/h6AAeWE00411/sirc-virus.zip/SIRC32-VIRUS.EXE
>       Found the W32/SirCam at MM virus !!!

As far as I understand it MS starts the virusscanner to check whether a
virus is detected. If at least one message in a batch has a virus MS
starts the virusscanner with the clean option. Perhaps McAfee doesn't
act (anymore) on that option.

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