Multiple virus scanners

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Mar 30 13:55:51 IST 2004


At 13:55 30/03/2004, you wrote:
>On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:45:25 +0200
>Raymond Dijkxhoorn <raymond at PROLOCATION.NET> wrote:
>
> > Thats how it works.
> >
> > Bye,
> > Raymond.
>
>Is there some method of not using the second virus scanner if the first
>one catches a virus because this will be wasting a lot of resources.

It actually causes only a very slight extra load, certainly nothing
compared to extracting all the attachments from the messages in the first
place. Remember that MailScanner only runs the virus scanners once for each
*batch* of messages, not once per *message*.
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Julian Field
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