[Mimedefang] New .zip virus?

[Elders Real Estate Ballina]

I just had one in my Inbox as well...except mine was body.zip.   It wasn't 
blocked or detected by clam av & mimedefang.

  What would cause the file to drop through the filter/scanner?

Regards
Mat




At 09:33 PM 26/01/2004 -0500, you wrote:

> >    Got a test msg coming through with a zip file attached 'body.zip'
> >(in fact, second one for the day).  Norton Antivirus calls it
> >W32.Novarg.A at mm.  They don't have a whole lot of info on it yet, except
> >to label it a level 4 threat:
>
>I just got one in my personal box with the zip file containing body.scr. 
>MD quarantines the one with body.zip but lets the one with the body.scr 
>through. Luckily my MTA, FoxMail 5.x beta considers it spam and sticks it 
>in the Spam box. FixIT does recognize it as a virus...
>
>So there are at least 2 variants...
>
>Paul
>
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