does SophosSAVI detect trojans?

Martin Hepworth martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM
Fri Oct 28 12:01:13 IST 2005


Greg

Should do, but of the Trojans etc won't hit till you try and execute the
linked html program on the PC. 

Ie you still protection on PC if the email gets through the the user selects
to download to crud

--
Martin Hepworth 
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
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> All the messages caught by sophosSAVI appear as W32/<foo> in the logs.
> Is this trapping other kinds of malware like Troj/<bar>, WM/<fubar>,
> VBS/<blah>?
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