Not seeing any viruses being detected in my logs.

[Glenn Steen]

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On 06/12/05, Michael S. <admin at thenamegame.com> wrote:
> That's 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
>
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Hm, do you have the Keep quarantine clean thing set to yes? Or employ
the old "forward spam to /dev/null to get a delivery, hence a virus
check"?

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-- Glenn
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