Just reinstalled thanks to MyDoom and EICAR is slipping through....

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Jan 27 18:53:27 GMT 2004


At 18:45 27/01/2004, you wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>I just reinstalled the latest 4.25.14 and the latest Sophos (using the
>Sophos.install script).  Instead of migrating my old configs I just
>edited the default and changed the few things that I need to like
>sitename, virus scanner, and postmaster.
>
>I went to a webmail account and emailed the eicar.com file.  It was
>rejected for filename.  OK, I renamed it to just 'eicar' and sent it
>again.... AND I GOT IT!  It appears to have either not been scanned or
>sophos goofed.
>
>Any help?

What did you maillog say?
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