ClamAV and Password Protected Bagles
Spicer, Kevin
Kevin.Spicer at BMRB.CO.UK
Thu Mar 4 14:14:38 GMT 2004
Julian Field wrote:
>> Could you please make this an option?
>
> It's not as trivial to implement as it sounds, as MailScanner scans
> many messages at once and needs to be able to spot the difference
> between the message text and any similarly-named attachment. Whatever
> I decide to call the raw message text, someone will write a virus
> which contains a harmless attachment called the same thing to try to
> defeat me. I wonder how (or even if) the Amavis guys have solved this
> problem?
How about <Messageid>.txt - that should be fairly difficult to predict.
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