On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:45:42AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dinesh Birlasekaran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, 24 June 2003 2:29 PM > > To: James Gray > > Subject: FW: [SLUG] Opinions sought: Exim vs Sendmail > > > > > > > > > > Hi james, > > > > What anti virus are u using? > > > > Dinesh. > > We wrap NAI's "vscan" into inflex. Inflex handles the > UUencode/decode, virus scanning and magic number calculation as > well. We actually look at attached files to determine their content > rather than rely on file names alone. For instance, if someone > tries to send a Win32 .exe file by renaming it to bogus.txt or > something, we calculate "bugus.txt" magic number and it will be > detected as a potentially dangerous attachment and deleted. Quite > quick and very effective when coupled with the virus scanner :-) We > ditch hazardous attachments before running the virus scanner - which > means we end up scanning a LOT of .zip files.
Does your scanner unzip them and scan the included packages? Does your scanner run zipcracker (PVM enabled :-) to open passworded zip files? cheers, Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
