Re: [Evolution] Of Filters, viruses, worms and trojans

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 17:27 -0500, L. Clayton Parker wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 08:49, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > the linux virus scanners don't scan for linux viruses, they scan for
> > windows viruses.
> > 
> > Jeff
>
> Now that is an interesting point. I had not considered that the software
> may only search for windows viruses. I'm not terribly concerned with
> those, but I would at least like to make sure I don't pass any along. I
> will have to look into it.
>
> So far my attempts to use the pipe command with return codes have all
> failed. Setting it to returns "3" (Virus fragments detected) flags ALL
> my incoming mail as viruses...

I would try running messages manually through the command and playing with it that way to see what codes are coming out.

e.g. scan < testmessage ; echo $?

will print out the return code for you.

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> "born to die, live to work, it's all downhill from here" Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer