Delete incoming virus warnings

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jan 30 09:12:09 GMT 2004


At 18:24 29/01/2004, you wrote:
>At 12:40 PM 1/29/2004, you wrote:
>>Thanks for the quick reply.
>>Is there anything i can do within the version i am currently running?
>>Unfortunaly with this bloody virus going around now, i cant afford to take
>>down MailScanner.
>>thanks
>
>scratches head and tries to remember back to MailScanner 3.5...
>
>Does 3.5 have the "Silent Viruses" and "Still Deliver Silent Viruses"
>options, or are those 4.x generation stuff?

I *think* they are 4.x features, but I'm not sure.

>If you don't have at least the Silent Viruses option, do yourself and
>everyone else a favor and upgrade ASAP or take your mailserver completely
>offline until you can get a version of MS that doesn't respond to to
>viruses in a broken manner.
>
>I know the "All-Viruses" option for Silent Viruses is fairly new... But if
>you at least have Silent Viruses, you can add mydoom, sco.a or whatever
>your scanner calls it to the Silent Viruses list, and then set:
>
>Still Deliver Silent Viruses = no
>
>Which should prevent it from sending notices about the virus to anyone but
>the postmaster.

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