On Fri, Jun 27, 2003, Antony Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 27 June 2003 11:41 pm, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 27, 2003, Antony Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Friday 27 June 2003 10:45 pm, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> > > > Has anyone thought much about including metadata about viruses/worms?
> > > >
> > > > For instance, I'd like to develop a mail filtering application that
> > > > will filter out infected files and deliver the rest of the email.
> > >
> > > Try http://www.mailscanner.info
> >
> > I don't see the correlation. If clamav can't give that information to
> > anything I develop, MailScanner doesn't have that information either.
> 
> MailScanner will remove infected attachments from emails and deliver the 
> remainder of the email as it was.   Is that not what you want to do?

No. Like I mentioned further below the quote above, I don't want to
deliver the body of worms. There's no point to deliver them and will
just waste disk space and the users time.

That's why I wanted to differentiate between viruses that attach to
payloads (think infected executable) where the rest of the message
and/or attachments might still be useful, versus worms which send their
own emails and as a result, the entire message is useless.

JE


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