Virus scanning of spam messages

Alex Neuman alex at nkpanama.com
Sat May 15 01:10:26 IST 2004


It's actually "by design". If you're not getting viruses tagged as spam it
means you're not using all of the plugins, since DCC, Razor and Pyzor are
usually tagging virus messages (erroneously) as spam because of their
similar characteristics.

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From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Martin Hepworth
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 3:38 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Virus scanning of spam messages


Pavel

oh.

it does on mine setup.

can you attach the Mailscanner.conf so we can see if there's anything
that might be overriding the virus scanning..

what version of MS was it again?

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Pavel Zichovsky wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> On 14 May 2004 at 9:09, Martin Hepworth wrote:
>
>
>>look at the faq for adding in virus scanners.
>>
>>Basically, install install the scanner (in the case of Sophos you need a
>>specific install script not the vendor supplied) and edit the
>>MailScanner.conf in the "Virus Scanning and Vulnerability Testing"
>>section as required for your scanner.
>
>
> Of course I have virus scanner (AVG) correctly set up and runnig.
MailScanner is
> correctly scannig messages for viruses (and liquidate them) EXCEPT of spam
> messages, which are NOT virus scanned. And that is the problem.
> Regards
> Pavel Zichovsky (zichovsky at trul.cz)
>
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