Every day I have received about 30 email's with pictures which have strange
names( for example sevwqwso.gif, iwhfetsn.gif, qfwecqtf.jpg) and
nonexistent's senders ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Clamav don't
find any viruses in this email's .
Can Clamav find viruses in pictures?
It is possible that these pictures are linked to URLs so that if you click on them
from you are taken to a site which downloads a virus. ClamAV has experimental
code to handle this called "FOLLOWURLS".
Being experimental it is only in the test version available from snapshot and CVS,
and is not compiled in or enabled by default. To enable it you need to defined FOLLOWURLS
in mbox.c (about line 447) and either run clamscan with --mail-follow-urls or
if you're using clamd you will need to enable MailFollowURLs.
-Nigel
it's clearly a big advantage using a MUA that features disabling of parsing HTML-formatted emails (if you don't discard them at the MTA ;)... make use of it! ClamAV would be nice as kind of 'backup security', but this doesn't make an unsensible user (his/her MTA) harmless in any way...
timo
:x!
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