Oh great.. so F-Prot for DOS is trash then right? ~Rick
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Tolmachoff > (Lists) > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 9:32 AM - FamHost > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Declude.Virus] Bugbear.B and F-Prot > > > Last week, I was getting a lot messages being caught with banned extension > that appeared to otherwise be Bugbear.B. Upon Scott's recommendation, I > submitted them to F-Prot. > > I received a response from F-Prot this morning, and they were indeed > Bugbear.B, but do to long file names, F-Prot DOS could not read them. This > was because the infected attachment had a long file name. > > "Unfortunately there is a problem with running a DOS anti-virus scanner on > Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP > systems. It is not guaranteed that all files will be scanned. The > reason for > this has mainly to do > with long filenames and non-ASCII characters in file names. DOS only > "understands" 8 character > long filenames." > > Makes sense to me. > > John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA > Engineer/Consultant > eServices For You > www.eservicesforyou.com > > ___________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.Virus". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
