ClamAV and Password Protected Bagles

Kevin Spicer kevins at BMRB.CO.UK
Wed Mar 3 22:14:29 GMT 2004


On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 22:10, Lindsay Snider wrote:
> amavisd was patched to fix all of this mess by making the original email
> available in the 'parts' directory.  If mailscanner dropped the original
> email in to be scanned, the virus scanner may be able to do the hard work.
> -lindsay
>
On the other hand the virus scanner will attempt to unpack the parts
too.  I use three virus scanners so that means the original email would
get unpacked 4 times.

We're already unzipping things 4 times now!




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