[pmmail-list] Complex filter for virus update

[Dave Hathaway]

I doubt the virus detectors will find the virus on an email attachment,
since it will be UU or MIME encoded.  But if you save it to disk, it
will probably be found.  McAfee didn't detect the virus until I
actually created the file on the disk by saving it.  Transmitting a
virus doesn't harm your system, but running it does. :)

Dave


On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 13:11:00 -0700, Dave in Phoenix AZ wrote:

>On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:15:31 +0200 (MES), Lueko Willms wrote:
>> BTW, one other filter criteria is to have a program run on the
>>message, and check the return, the program could be a virus checking
>>program
>
>I have tried 3 latest virus checking programs and none detect it coming in.
> But if run them  manually they will find the virus file in the pmmail
>directory.   Long ago I accidently opened another virus file and one of the
>virus programs caught it.  But I could not even highlight the message in
>PMMAIL to delete it since the virus program wouldn't allow it to be even
>highighted (and then delete).  I had to turn off the virus checking program
>in order to delete the message with the virus.
>
>Dave in Phoenix
>
>
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