ZIP files seems not to be scanned (mydoom)

[Kevin Spicer]

On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 16:59, Danny Zak wrote: Hello MAILSCANNER list;

>it seems that my mailscanner isn't scanning zip attaches for virusses.

>it does filter out the mydoom virus by files that are standardly
>attached although.

As Ugo says this is the job of your antivirus, which one are you using.

Have you checked that the unfiltered mails actually contain the virus in
their zips (run past another virus scanner) - there are some broken
copies around sending out non infected zips.





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