On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 9:25:26 +0000, J J Young wrote:

> Hello again Sam,

> ======= On 2003-03-30 at 12:36:00 you wrote: =======

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>> Perhaps F-prot is capable of indentifying email viruses only when it is
>> examining individual message files one at a time.  It appears to not
>> work at all in finding viruses in concatenated mail.

> As I said, there's the 500,000 byte watershed with Foxmail (which I assume
> is saving the mail in concatenated form). I ought to try my small collection
> of viruses to see if they're all susceptible to the mailbox size limit.

> Perhaps you could try it on a zipped zipfile?

> Regards,

> Jake Young

F-prot does work for finding viruses in a zipped archive of
individual messages.  It will not work for finding viruses in
a zipped file consisting of concatenated emails.

Sam Heywood
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