Fwd: Re: fprot not able to clean viruses?

[Antony Stone]

Sorry - this reply went drectly to Daniel instead of back to the list...

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Subject: Re: fprot not able to clean viruses?
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:59:29 +0100
From: Antony Stone <Antony at Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
To: Daniel Tan <danieltan at shopnsave.com.sg>

On Monday 15 September 2003 10:03 am, 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."

That doesn't stop MailScanner removing the attachment after F-Prot has said
it's infected.

Antony.

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