Re: sophie not detecting some viruses

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 01:05:11PM -0500, CertaintyTech wrote:
> Sophie does not pickup this virus on my system either when scanning the
> raw message.  From my experience sophie can't be trusted to scan raw
> MIME messages.  But that's why my virus scanner, qmail-scanner, always
> unpacks MIME attachments first then scans the attachment file using
> sophie. 

If you look at the file with e.g. "less" you will notice that it /is/
already unpacked. It does not consist of MIME parts any more.

	\Maex

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