Eicar signature in the subject line {Scanned}

[William Curley]

Appears to be, I'm running latest mailscanner with postfix 2.0.13 with
f-prot 4.1.1 and it doesn't detect the subject line.
Thinking about it there is little reason for it to. You can't get a virus
from only the subject line so why should it scan it?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Polkosnik" <ap at HPI.COM>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: Eicar signature in the subject line {Scanned}


> Matt Kettler wrote:
>
> > At 03:36 PM 7/15/2003 -0400, Adam Polkosnik wrote:
> >
> >> Just as I was updating my mail system and started to do some testing
> >> I've noticed that an e-mail with eicar signature in the subject line
was
> >> able to pass through (without any problem) my mailserver equipped with
> >> Mailscanner and ClamAv.
> >> Would anyone like to comment on this one?
> >
> >
> > My comment "Yeah, it works as it should, so what's the issue?"
> >
> Are you trying to say that by design the Subject line is excluded from
> being scanned?
>