Last week, I was getting a lot messages being caught with banned extension
that appeared to otherwise be Bugbear.B. Upon Scott's recommendation, I
submitted them to F-Prot.

I received a response from F-Prot this morning, and they were indeed
Bugbear.B, but do to long file names, F-Prot DOS could not read them. This
was because the infected attachment had a long file name.

"Unfortunately there is a problem with running a DOS anti-virus scanner on
Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP 
systems. It is not guaranteed that all files will be scanned. The reason for
this has mainly to do 
with long filenames and non-ASCII characters in file names. DOS only
"understands" 8 character 
long filenames."

Makes sense to me.

John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA
Engineer/Consultant
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