Feature Suggestion: Stop after Virus Found

[Ugo Bellavance]

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Mark Chitti [mailto:mailscanner.list at MARKCHITTI.COM]
>Envoyé : 4 avril, 2004 01:36
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Feature Suggestion: Stop after Virus Found
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>I was just looking at the latest round of Viruses stopped by 
>MailScanner
>and the AV packages I'm using.  As I am using multiple AV packages I do
>note that MailScanner keeps scanning after a Virus is found.
>
>I'd love to have an option to set MailScanner to stop Scanning 
>after an AV
>package found something nasty.  There's no reason (not 
>counting curiosity)
>to keep scanning if something bad has already been IDed.

This has been discussed before, in the past days especially.  Please see the archives before posting.

Once the anti-virus is loaded for a batch of messages, the ressources needed to scan another file is minimal.  It is more complicated to do tests on whether we should scan or not than just scan it.

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