{Scanned} Re: Virus is slipping through mailscanner

Koen Teugels kte at NEXIS.BE
Thu Dec 23 14:38:02 GMT 2004


I have Bitdefender and Clamav installed.But they don't detect it. And
when a tgz attachment is passing the mail relay. He suffers everything on
the server is slowing down.

Koen

Mark Nienberg wrote:
      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.

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