Hi Samuel, Are you sure Arachne did not decode the attachment? It may not have been written to a file yet... but it is written to the cache already, decoded.
CU, Bastiaan On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 23:55:55 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > I have noticed that F-prot AV will discover, flag, identify, and report > any MIME-encoded email attachments containing viruses in messages > received by Arachne's email client, even if the the attachment has not > yet been decoded and saved to a file. > In the case of messages received by Nettamer's email client a > MIME-encoded attachment containing a virus will not get caught by > F-prot until after the attachment has been decoded and saved to a > file. > This applies even in the case of same virus, different email client. > I wonder why this is so. Does anyone know why? > Sam Heywood > -- > This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: > http://browser.arachne.cz/
