How to delete viruses and quarantine the bad attachments in the same time

Denis Beauchemin Denis.Beauchemin at USHERBROOKE.CA
Wed Oct 29 20:12:33 GMT 2003


Magda,

What you have is redundant: All-Viruses includes Klez Yaha-E...  but
that isn't the issue here.

Change
  Quarantine Infections = yes
into
  Quarantine Infections = no
and you should be closer to your goal.

Denis

Le mer 29/10/2003 à 10:00, Magda Hewryk a écrit :
> Hi,
> So far I'have tried to delete viruses instead of quarantine them without
> any luck.
> I've updated MailScanner to the newest 4.24-5 and I set Silent Viruses to
> All-Viruses as follow:
> Silent Viruses = HTML-IFrame All-Viruses Klez Yaha-E Bugbear Braid-A
> WinEvar Palyh Sobig Fizzer   # mnh T136
> 
> Sure, I've restared MailScanner on our relay boxes but still viruses are
> quarantined.
> For example the virus egkmwbn.exe was stored on
> in /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine directory.  Any help how to stop it.
> We'd like to be notified that the virus was detected but we don't want the
> file to be stored on our gateway.  Any hint how to stop it?
> 
> The following e-mail messages were found to have attachment in them:
> 
>     Sender: robertagrossoni at virgilio.it
> IP Address: 212.216.176.222
>  Recipient: schow at symcor.com
>    Subject:
>  MessageID: h9TEDh6E008434
>     Report: /h9TEDh6E008434/egkmwbn.exe        Found the W32/Swen at MM
> virus !!!
>             Executable DOS/Windows programs are dangerous in email
> (egkmwbn.exe)
> 
> Regards,
> Magda
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