Why mailscanner fails recognizing a forwarded infected.

[Mirko Bovati]

On Friday 03 September 2004 17:29, you wrote:
> Mirko Bovati wrote:
> > On Friday 03 September 2004 16:28, you wrote:
> >>Mirko
> >>
> >>do these scanners recognise the virus is called from the command line on
> >>the MS computer??
> >
> > hi Martin,
> >
> > The local antivirus who finds the virus is VisusScan 7.0 on a MS
> > computer. VirusScan doesn't clean the email. I forward the infected email
> > (and MailScanner say it is clean) and the recipient again find it is
> > infected.
> >
> > But, on another way, if I after receiving the infected email, I save the
> > attach (i.e. the virus) and I send a new email with the saved attach
> > attached, the MailScanner find the virus.
> >
> > I don't know if I answered your question.
> >
> > mirko
>
> Mirko
>
> OK are you keeping archive copies of the mails? If so what happens if
> you run the virus scanner on the infected message it misses - ie run the
> virus outside of MS control, from the command line, on the infected
> message.

Running from command line on a linux box, uvscan misses the infected messages.
the same happens df/qf pair.

So it seems e mcafee problem.


>
> That way you'll know if there's something wrong with MS or the virus
> scanner..

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