Attachments - packed files

[Julian Field]

At 15:37 03/03/2003, you wrote:
>         I want to just make sure that MailScanner doesn't unpack
>attachments with a corresponding external program. Why am I asking?
>Some antivirus scanners aren't perfect and I want to unpack all the
>compressed attachments for them and then let them scan the unpacked
>files. Has anybody written such hack or his own antivirus wrapper?

All the decent anti-virus programs unpack every common archive format
already. If your scanning engine doesn't unpack archives, then I suggest
you buy a better one :-)
You are quite correct, MailScanner doesn't unpack archives (as it doesn't
need to).
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Julian Field
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