Re: Virus Checking - COMPLETELY UNENCUMBERED!
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 18:20, Joseph Carter wrote:
> for many users. The other scans all attachments for executable content,
> regardless of the filename. While not always desirable to reject such
> messages, it is at least worthwhile to tag them as suspect and probably
> either spam or a virus (or both..)
>
> If amavis does not provide this functionality, then I shall seek it
> elsewhere. Perhaps that exim filter will do as I need; certainly I can
> rewrite the filter in question for use with postfix in perl or python if
> it does.
What messages amavis detects as viruses depends on what virus scanning
software you use with it.
It will always scan all attachments, regardless of filename, mime-type,
size or anything like that.
So, if I copied one of scannerdaemon virus signatures here, in the body
of this message, the message would never get to the destination. It
would be detected as a virus.
I am not sure, is this what you want? If not, it should be possible to
add what you want simply by modifying the code.
This isn't perfect though, I have received SPAM emails with very
suspicious attachments that aren't detected as virus...
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Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
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