{Scanned} Virus is slipping through mailscanner

[Mark Nienberg]

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Koen Teugels wrote:

> The attachment copfilter.tgz has the EICAR test virus in it but the
> latest version of mailscanner let it pass to the real mailserver
>
I've seen this too with ClamAv and ".tgz" files.  In my case I have
Sophos installed in tandem with Clam so I haven't worried about it.

--
Mark Nienberg, SE
Tipping Mar + associates
1906 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94704
http://www.tippingmar.com

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