[Mimedefang] dealing with .exe/.com viruses

Brent J. Nordquist b-nordquist at bethel.edu
Wed Nov 3 09:02:54 EST 2004


On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:52:24PM +0100, Davide Vaghetti wrote:
> recently I noticed that some viruses that send emails with attached .exe
> or .com executables are not processed by the antivirus because
> mimedefang kept out the attachment before scanning the messages with the
> antivirus (that is clamd, but it shouldn't matter).
> [...]
> Does someone know if there is a way to call the sub
> "filter_bad_filename" after the antivirus check ?

Sure. In my filter() in mimedefang-filter, I do the anti-virus check first
and call filter_bad_filename() farther down. Works fine.

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Brent J. Nordquist <b-nordquist at bethel.edu> N0BJN
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