fprot not able to clean viruses?

[Res]

Hi Daniel,

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Daniel Tan wrote:

> hi all,
>         noted that this appears in manpages of f-prot.
>
> "Unix  mailboxes  are  considered to be archives and therefore F-Prot
> Antivirus is not able to remove infected attachments."

This is true, if you scan /var/spool/mail

But..... on inbound mail scanning via MailScanner, F-Prot does detect and
does delete them.

IMHO F-Prot is one of the most reliable scanners around.


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