[ale] ergh, need to scan MIME encoded msgs for virus

Jonathan Rickman jonathan at xcorps.net
Wed Aug 20 00:47:48 EDT 2003


On Wednesday 20 August 2003 00:28, J.M. Taylor wrote:

> I have a list of all files recieved today in the suspect time period.
> They are in standard boring email format, with MIME encoded attachments.
> Running a virus scanner on these will not catch anything, because it's
> MIME encoded. I can't find anywhere on how to run MIMEDefang standalone.
> Unfortunately grepping for the extensions isn't working out because there
> are also warnings from our virus scan (once it kicked in) and warnings
> from other people's virus scans giving us tons of false positives.

Shot in the dark...

http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan-acl/


-- 
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net


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