Sophie and BinHex encoding

"CertaintyTech-Ed" <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:18:42 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.virus.vtools
Message-ID <006d01c41031$b9d06220$9300a8c0@ED01>
I recently went to http://www.testvirus.org to test my virus scanner
system:  qmail 1.03, qmail-scanner 1.21, and sophie 3.04rc1.  5 out of
25 virus tests failed.  Here are two that failed that are specific to
sophie:

Test #5 - Eicar virus sent using BinHex encoding
Test #8 - Eicar virus sent using BinHex encoding within a MIME segment

These two tests reveal a problem with sophie scanning BinHex encoded
attachments.  In /etc/sophie.savi I do have:

   HqxDecompression: 1

I do realize that BinHex is a Mac encoding method but this could be one
that may be used in the future and I want to be proactive.  Any one have
any suggestions for this?  

Thanks,
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Ed.