[Mimedefang] Virus Scanning

[David F. Skoll]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Chris Masters wrote:

> Is it safe to ditch calls to message_contains_virus_*
> from filter_begin and *only* use
> entity_contains_virus_* from filter.

For now.

However, the entity_contains_virus_* functions are deprecated, and may
be removed from a future version of MIMEDefang.

Also, the message_contains_virus_* routines can be passed the raw MIME
message as well as the unpacked parts, which might permit detection
of some viruses that would otherwise be missed.  (Different virus-scanners
have different "bug-compatibility" modes for how they interprete MIME.)

Regards,

David.