virus scanning with virus delivery

[Peter Bonivart]

Kevin Miller wrote:
> ClamAV doesn't clean viruses - might that work?  Don't know if it would
> strip off the attachments by default, but it definately doesn't clean 'em
> last I heard...

Clam doesn't disinfect viruses but MS cleans them, see Julians comment
from MailScanner.conf:

# Should I attempt to disinfect infected attachments and then deliver
# the clean ones. "Disinfection" involves removing viruses from files
# (such as removing macro viruses from documents). "Cleaning" is the
# replacement of infected attachments with "VirusWarning.txt" text
# attachments.

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/Peter Bonivart

--Unix lovers do it in the Sun

Sun Fire V210, Solaris 9, Sendmail 8.12.10, MailScanner 4.29.7,
SpamAssassin 2.63 + DCC 1.2.39, ClamAV 0.70 + GMP 4.1.2, Vispan 1.3