Missed virus?

[Antony Stone]

On Friday 05 September 2003 8:16 pm, Kevin Spicer wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 19:27, Antony Stone wrote:
> > I just tested this by taking eicar.com, tar-gzipping it, then
> > winzipping the tgz file, then bzip2-ing the winzip file, and emailing
> > myself the .bz2 file.

> And of course MailScanner didn't pick up the .com file & block it.

Well, that is what I would expect (not picking it up) since MailScanner's
file extension rules definitely only apply to the actual file being attached.

> It would be most interesting to see the source of the original message
> (if you still have it Gerry).

I agree :)

Antony.

--

Anyone that's normal doesn't really achieve much.

 - Mark Blair, Australian rocket engineer