fprot not able to clean viruses?

[Daniel Tan]

thanks all for providing the useful info....i tried the scanner and it can
work on quarantine dirs of mailscanner....detect and clean or delete the
virus
but not on mailboxes residing in /var/spool/mail...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Antony Stone" <Antony at SOFT-SOLUTIONS.CO.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 7:12 PM
Subject: Fwd: Re: fprot not able to clean viruses?


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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