Interesting... I downloaded F-Prot for DOS, and tried scanning a few message files that I had saved which have the virus in them as a MIME attachment. It reported no viruses found... It just occurred to me to wonder if I might have gotten an old version that just didn't detect this virus?
Going to check now...:) At 16:32 8/25/2003, Bill Healy wrote: >F-Prot doesn't need to have the attachments decoded to detect a virus. >In fact I've used it a few times after a major outbreak to scan the >\mailroot\domains folder to see if any virii have slipped by before >f-prot was updated with the newest data files. > >What you probably read in the readme was the way the script used to >work. I used to save the attachment to a temp folder and then scan them >with AVG and F-Prot. But it was found that F-Prot caught everything and >didn't require the overhead of decoding the attachment, so the script >was changed. > >Bill > > > >---------- > >From: Tracy[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 11:57 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: [xmail] Re: OT: Virus scanner for Windows / XMail > > > >I had looked at this script earlier, but I was confused about whether or > >not the message needed to be decoded before f-prot was run against it - I > >couldn't seem to find anything that decoded the attachments in the filter > >script, but the readme.txt made mention of "saving attachments" in a > >particular folder. > > > > > >At 14:54 8/25/2003, Edinilson J. Santos wrote: > > > > > >>Try f-prot for DOS > >>http://www.f-prot.com/download/download_fpdos.html > >> > >>and try these scripts too: > >>www.atinet.com.br/xmail > >> > >> > >>Edinilson > >>--------------------------------------------------------- > >>ATINET-Professional Web Hosting > >>Tel Voz: (0xx11) 4412-0876 > >>http://www.atinet.com.br > >> > >> > >>----- Original Message ----- > >>From: "Tracy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 2:46 PM > >>Subject: [xmail] OT: Virus scanner for Windows / XMail > >> > >> > >>Greetings, > >> > >>Does anyone have a recommendation for a virus scanner (not a filter script, > >>the actual anti-virus program) for use with XMail on Windows? Being a > >>"home" user, I don't have much money to put into such a product, so if > >>there is one which is inexpensive (or free) to use, that would be so much > >>the better.... > >> > >>Thanks, and sorry for the OT post... > >> > >>Tracy > >> > >> > >>- > >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > >>the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > >>--- > >>Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > >>Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > >>Version: 6.0.512 / Virus Database: 309 - Release Date: 19/08/2003 > >> > >>- > >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > >>the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >- > >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
