[Mimedefang] Virus scanning: ignore text/plain and text/html?

Josh Kelley josh at jbc.edu
Wed May 18 15:12:32 EDT 2005


Matt Cuttitta wrote:

>It makes perfect sense to me to skip over the text/plain and text/html parts
>as I'm not sure how they could contain viruses.  However, I haven't seen or
>heard of anyone else doing this.
>
>Anyone else looked into this?  Comments?
>  
>
In addition to others' comments, virus scanners like ClamAV and (I 
think) uvscan can catch some phishing scams.

Josh Kelley



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