Virus and messages not cleaned with "Still Deliver Silent Viruses = yes"

Kai Schaetzl maillists at conactive.com
Sun Mar 14 17:31:21 GMT 2010


Xavier Montagutelli wrote on Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:09:54 +0100:

> Can someone confrm that it should work ?

I remember someone having the same problem as you some weeks ago.
There is no point in delivering a virus-infected message. A message that 
contains a virus is always a fake *in total*. It is not a legit message 
that has a virus file attached.

>From Still Deliver Silent Viruses comment:
# Still deliver (after cleaning) messages that contained viruses listed
# in the above option ("Silent Viruses") to the recipient?
# Setting this to "yes" is good when you are testing everything, and
# because it shows management that MailScanner is protecting them,
# but it is bad because they have to filter/delete all the incoming virus
# warnings.
#
# Note: Once you have deployed this into "production" use, you should set
# Note: this option to "no" so you don't bombard thousands of people with
# Note: useless messages they don't want!

> But the attachments is not 
> replaced any more !

Yes, I agree, according to the comment for this option the file should get 
replaced by a warning. I think it stopped working like this when the 
virusscan was moved before the spamscan and I think there is a reason, 
too. As I said, doing so doesn't make sense.

Kai

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