Help. When a email is found on a blacklist, is the email checked for viruses?

[Steve Swaney]

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> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Steen, Glenn
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 1:45 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Help. When a email is found on a blacklist, is the email
> checked for viruses?
>
> If I understand things correctly any message that is actually delivered
> somewhere (regardless of the _spam_ actions etc) will be passed through
> the virus scanner(s).
>
> Get the him/her to return a copy of it to you, then run your virus scanner
> on it... Does it detect it? (you might have to dig up how the wrapper
> script is actually called:).
>
> Another piece of advice: get another AV program too. I use both clamav
> (http://www.clamav.net), bitdefender (jttp://www.bitdefender.com) which
> are free for linux (bitdef. might need "beta" code maturity, and is
> reputed to be unstable.... I've never seen that though) and McAfee (since
> we pay some handsome sum of money for a license that include it a linux
> command line anyway:)... At least get clam.
>

No BitDefender is fully supported and works well on rpm Linux systems.

Steve

Steve Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
www.fsl.com
steve.swaney at fsl.com



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