Not seeing any viruses being detected in my logs.

Michael S. admin at thenamegame.com
Tue Dec 6 15:09:05 GMT 2005


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That^Òs interesting because this must have changed then. We used to see it
say a message was spam followed by description of the virus found in the
logs and my MailScanner-MRTG script that records the number of occurrences
of spam and viruses is now off because of it.

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Subject: Re: Not seeing any viruses being detected in my logs.

Michael S. wrote on         Mon, 5 Dec 2005 21:08:38 -0500:

> We are getting lots of messages from admin at cia.gov which does contain an 
> attachment but MS is simply saying the scored high and that it got
deleted. 
> Well, what about the attachment that comes with that file? I should be 
> seeing F-Secure scanning it, detecting it, reporting the name of the virus

> followed by either a removal and delete or a delivery to the user. I'm not

> seeing any of this anymore.

If the stuff is caught as spam there won't be any virus checking.

Kai

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