[pmmail-list] virus kills pmmail

[Dave Saville]

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:50:16 -0400 (EDT), Bruce Francis wrote:

>It's a long-standing (was going to say "known", but as I think of it
>I've never received any confirmation back from BSW from all the
>complaints, attached messages that crash PMMail/2, etc, that I've
>sent over the past 2 years about this problem) issue with PMMail/2.
>
>I now have PMMail configured such that I can start it up in Remote
>Control.  I then make a pass thru and delete all the obvious spam.
>Before, it would invariably crash several times/week.  Now it's not so bad.
>

I also contacted Norman, and there is a new version due soon that
will at least delete the mail before pmmail sees it. According to
Norman support "A program trying to open a file that we find infected
will get error 5 (access denied) in return."

Now to my simple mind I suspect that what is happening inside pmmail
is that it *knows* it just wrote xyzzy123.MSG and when it can't read
back what it *knows* is there it craps out. ie they have not
correctly coded checking return codes from open because "we just
wrote the file it *must* be there and *must* have opened OK". They
then go on and read from a closed file handle or something and fall
over.

Most likely this explains a good percentage of "spam kills pmmail"
problems. Now who gets killer spam and has *no* AV in place?

-- 
Regards

Dave Saville
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