Test of mailscanner

[Joakim Cefalk]

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Thanks for the answer.
I use F-prot antivirus and thats the problem, it dosent find the virus.
I also have antivir installed and that catch the virus, now i scan my
mails with F-prot and antivir, and it works perfectly.

Joakim



Julian Field wrote:

> At 21:09 29/08/2004, you wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have run the test on http://www.testvirus.org and
>> http://www.declude.com/Articles.asp?ID=99 and a couple of the mail is
>> not stopped by the mailscanner. Is this a bug or have i not installed
>> mailscanner right?
>
>
> Three pieces of information:
>
> One of the tests at testvirus.org is very artificial (in fact several of
> them are) and relies on a horrifically broken message.
> Don't think for a minute that testvirus.org is run by some well-meaning
> individual. It is owned and run by Excedent (see www.excedent.com) who,
> funnily enough, sell their own anti-virus email system. So this whole
> site
> is engineered to make them look good and everyone else look bad. Check
> the
> whois record at www.whois.org if you want to check for yourself.
> The next version of MIME-tools, which is due out in the next month or
> two,
> aims to pass these artificial tests.
> --
> Julian Field
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> PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
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