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

[Christopher Fowler]

ripmime.

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:28:08AM -0400, J.M. Taylor wrote:
> Here's the situation -- in the 45 minutes it took us to get the updated
> dat file from McAfee this morning, we got slammed with lots of little
> nasty worms.
> 
> So we need to *remove* them from the users' mailboxes (please, I beg you, do
> not tell me to filter outgoing mail...I can't do it for a long list of
> reasons and it's just not gonna happen).
> 
> 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.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Many thanks
> jenn
> 
> 
> 
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