RE: Viruses not being picked up

"Clive McDowell" <[email protected]> Fri, 5 Nov 2004 12:26:43 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.mail.exim.exiscan.user
Organization The Queen's University of Belfast
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Are you sure about this? (e.g the fact that older versions 
> correctly identifies the SAME message that newer version 
> misses? Or is it just the same virus name?)

Yes I'm sure. I'm forwarding the same message via different routes. The
updated hub always passes it and the others always reject.

> Just curious, is sophie capable of scanning raw email files? 
> ClamAV does.
> If that is the case, sophie should be able to detect mail 
> from the raw message.
> If you only rely on extracted attachments, chances are you're 
> going to miss some (or perhaps lots) of viruses.

I just added a rule without the demime option but it still passes the
message.

Thanks for the reply,

 Clive McDowell

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