[Mimedefang] File::Scan

[alan premselaar]

On 3/21/03 1:06 AM, "Nels Lindquist" <nlindq at maei.ca> wrote:

> 
> Are you using the default mimedefang-filter which comes with
> MIMEDefang, or did you write the code for calling the
> *_contains_virus_filescan() functions yourself?
> 
i'm using the "linuxorg" filter that was provided in the contrib directory
of the MIMEDefang source tree.

> If the latter, are you sure it's returning a virus code and not a
> "suspicious" code?  File::Scan seems to be overly paranoid especially
> where Office documents with potential macros are concerned, and will
> often return a "suspicious" response for clean documents.
> 
I've gotten a couple of "suspicious" returns, but in these particular cases,
the $virusname is actually blank and not "suspicious" as i've seen before.


thanks for the response.

alan