New versions of F-Prot Antivirus (fwd)

[Paul Welsh]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Hollis" <spamtrap71892316634 at ANIME.NET>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: New versions of F-Prot Antivirus (fwd)


> On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Paul Welsh wrote:
> > That's a worry.  I haven't installed it yet because I wasn't certain
what
> > the effect of the changes to its default behaviour would be.  It now
scans
> > inside archives.  I imagined that performance problems might result in
both
> > MailScanner and F-Prot extracting the contents of archives and scanning
> > them.
>
> you can tell f-prot not to scan archives...
>
Well, you'd need to tell MailScanner to call F-Prot with the necessary
options.

I presume that some other AV software already scans archives by default.
Anyone know whether this causes any problems?