On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 19:13:10 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: > 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 Yes, I am sure. Executable programs sent as MIME-encoded email attachments and received by Arachne's email client do not get automagically decoded and written to cache unless one clicks on the attachment ikon. > 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/
