Stopping content report if virus found?

Hugo van der Kooij hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org
Mon Jun 11 06:21:43 IST 2007


On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Paul Hutchings wrote:

> As a recipient I do receive a "someone sent you a virus" report, though
> is also gives me the MailScanner report output about the file type:
>
> It's only a small thing, but is there any way around this? i.e. if it's
> a virus don't bother to check any further as it's a virus and I want to
> delete it?

Detecting a filetype takes only a few CPU cycles. But doing a scan on a 
file is much more expensive.

Hugo.

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