The http://www.pandasoftware.com active scan has worked for us on a couple of occasions. Of course your mileage may vary and you should fully understand what you are doing. You could always copy/rename the mbx and give it a whirl to ease your doubts. I would not suggest that you run any virus scanner on any folder or object unless you are absolutely sure that the loss of that folder/object (program) is not needed for your server to function. Simply put and stated: NO VIRUS INFECTED EMAIL, no matter what the content, is worth diddly squat if it 'destroys' your whole server and/or transverses throughout your corporate network. An ounce of common sense will spare your fears.
~Rick Sanford Whiteman wrote: >>At this fork in the road I'd be inclined just to run a virus scanner >>on the folders and have it delete any viruses it finds. >> > > I would not do this! Unless you are sure that the scanner is equipped > to handle/clean MIME segments within files, while preserving the rest > of the file, you will lose the entire mailbox. > > What you can do is use a multi-file ASCII text replacing utility to > change .exe to .exb or suchlike. Keeping the byte size of the MBX > files the same will avoid index corruption. Most of these utilities > are written for HTML--do a search on Google and you'll turn some up. > > -Sandy > > ___________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
