* On 15/01/07 21:12 -0800, Dennis Peterson wrote:
| Odhiambo Washington wrote:
| >Hi,
| >
| >For some strange reasons, I've seen some malware go past my filters
| >on several occasions.
| >One such case is today, where a mail containing two attachments, one
| >a gif and the other a zip archive, skipped clamd completely and was
| >delivered to my inbox.
| >
| >However, when I extract the attachment from the file and scan it with 
| >clamd, the worm is detected.
| >
| >Either this is a failure of the configuration on my MTA, or in the
| >way clamd analyzes such e-mail. I am running 0.88.7.
| 
| Do you have any kind of minimum size limit a message must have before it 
| is a candidate for scanning? Many sites don't scan very large messages 
| because they are outside the typical size for spam/viruses. It's a 
| choice that brings some risk but it does make things more efficient.

Yes, I don't subject to scanning any mails whose size exceed 1MB, but
the mail in question does not meet this criteria.


-Wash

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