Sophos killing protected Excel spreadsheets
Jeff A. Earickson
jaearick at COLBY.EDU
Thu Jun 2 19:29:44 IST 2005
Julian,
My howling user could successfully email her spreadsheet with the tweaks
below. Now to upgrade to 4.43.1 and repeat the test. Stay tuned.
Jeff
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Julian Field wrote:
> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 18:05:54 +0100
> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Sophos killing protected Excel spreadsheets
>
> I would like confirmation that my patches for Config.pm (\n in settings) and
> SweepViruses.pm (Allowed Sophos Error Messages implemented for SophosSAVI
> scanner) both work as intended before I publish a beta.
>
> But maybe that is slightly self-defeating. Sod it, I'll put out a beta for
> you. 4.43.1 on its way.
>
> Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>
>> Julian,
>>
>> I've set Allowed Sophos Error Messages = "File was encrypted", changed
>> from sophossavi to sophos, and asked the howling user to send me
>> an encrypted Excel spreadsheet to see if this fixes the issue. Then
>> I'll upgrade to 4.42.9, apply patch, go back to sophossavi, try again.
>>
>> Since there have two or three patches emailed out re 4.42.9, maybe it
>> is time to slap 4.43.x beta out there, and I'll just go to that...
>>
>> Jeff Earickson
>> Colby College
>>
>> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Julian Field wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 17:50:16 +0100
>>> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
>>> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>> Subject: Re: Sophos killing protected Excel spreadsheets
>>>
>>> Consider it done.
>>> Patch attached.
>>>
>>> Aaron K. Moore wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think that it would be a good addition to add the functionality for
>>>> SophosSAVI.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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