[Mimedefang] ClamAV not detecting all viruses

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Mon Jul 5 10:49:15 EDT 2004


On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Stewart James wrote:

> First. If I put some code in the filter_begin to reject messages not
> just run message_contain_virus, it will work better and trend will not
> get called. But, the reason why is not what I can call good news.

Clam will sometimes detect a virus in the raw MIME file (which it gets as
part of message_contain_virus), but not in the decoded parts.  I have no
idea why.

Anyway, as of this posting, entity_contains_virus() functions are officially
deprecated.  They may be removed in a future version of MIMEDefang.

Regards,

David.



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