[pmmail-list] Antivirus and PMMail2000

[Marc Lewis]

Hello all.

<On 08Feb2004 12:58 Dave Saville wrote a message regarding
[pmmail-list] Antivirus and PMMail2000 >

 > Norman does.  It shuts down PMMail when a virus is detected.  I
 > need to watch which message is downloading at the time and then
 > telnet in to delete that message.  Perhaps not the best way to
 > handle the situation under OS/2 -eCS, which does not really need to
 > fear viruses.

 DS> Well actually it hangs PMM when it sees a virus. There is a
 DS> better version in the offing though.

Indeed there is.  Many improvements have been made and are still being
made.  You'll see them fairly soon coming in through an NIU.

 DS> There are two problems, if you have on access scanning on then
 DS> any filter type script can't read the email - 'cos its infected.
 DS> If you tell Norman to exclude the mail directories then you
 DS> cannot check them from the command line or in a script - stupid
 DS> program says

What command line are you giving in the script?

Best regards,
Marc

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