Not seeing any viruses being detected in my logs.

[Scott Silva]

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Michael S. spake the following on 12/6/2005 7:09 AM:
> 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.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
> Of Kai Schaetzl
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 7:31 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> 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
> 
I think the old trick of adding a forward to the spam actions will kick
in a virus scan;
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/277.html

I'm sure Julian will add his comment if it doesn't work anymore.


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