Mydoom Virus getting Through

Martin Hepworth martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM
Wed Feb 11 16:10:31 GMT 2004


Michael Dahlberg wrote::
>
> Did you ever find a fix to this problem?
>
> We're experiencing a similar problem.  A number of messages are
> passing through MailScanner(4.13-3)/Sophos and then are interpreted as
> MyDoom-infected when they reach the client's MUA (Eudora) on a system
> which is running Symantec's Antivirus software.  If these messages are
> intercepted before being downloaded to the client's system, they look
> as if they might have something wrong with the MIME header because
> some MUAs will interpret the message as not having an attachment.
>
> Do you see something similar?
>
> Thanks.

Michael

the latest 3.78d from Sophos seems to have picked up one that ClamAV
0.66 didn't....

may I suggest you upgrade your sophos to 3.78d.

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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