Filename whitelist virus problem

[Julian Field]

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What is your "Virus Scanners =" setting, and have you made *any* changes
to the -wrapper scripts at all. Scanning the contents of zip files is
left to the virus scanners, so your scanner is not unpacking it.

Have you checked that any virus scanning to this particular user is working?

Carinus Carelse wrote:

>I have setup a whitelist to allow .zip and .com messages through to only
>one user.  My understanding is that it should still scan for viruses but
>when I send the eicar test zip file with the .com zipped inside it just
>sends it through and doesn't scan it for viruses.
>
>Can anyone maybe help me?
>
>Carinus
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