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

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