query if mailscanner using clamscan

[Scott Silva]

Julian Field spake the following on 7/30/2007 11:01 AM:
> 
> 
> shuttlebox wrote:
>> On 7/29/07, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>>> The only thing I can think of is to ship with a copy of Eicar.
>>>     
>> Please don't ship Eicar with MailScanner. That will make many of us
>> not able to download MailScanner since http-scanning will detect a
>> virus in it.
> 
>> The ClamAV module used to contain Eicar so it could be used during
>> make test and it stopped me from downloading it. I got the author to
>> stop shipping Eicar and I hope you do to. Just let us get Eicar
>> ourselves. If it's present in the correct location it will be used for
>> the lint, otherwise not.
> 
> I have tried scanning the file with ClamAV and F-Prot and neither of 
> them find it, I've hidden it well enough. It was one of my greatest 
> concerns too. Try downloading it before complaining, you might well find 
> you don't have a problem.
> 
> It's in the latest beta. Try downloading it and tell me what happens.
> 
> Jules
> 
McAfee doesn't catch it either.
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You hope everybody uses it, and
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