Sorry if I came off sounding a little harsh, just didn't want anyone jumping
the gun and getting bitten in the...

I contacted MailScanners author today...

>Julian,
>  Just FYI, Did you know that the latest variant of the Sobig virus 
>Adds "X-MailScanner: Found to be clean" to the headers of all
>infected messages in the attempt to bypass Virus scanning?

>Yes, I did. Thanks for letting me know anyway.

>As far as I can see, it is the first time a virus has actively attempted to

>discredit a virus-scanning package. However, please do note that the 
>presence of this header has no effect whatsoever on whether MailScanner 
>actually scans a message or not.

Fritz

Frederick P. Squib, Jr.
Network Operations
Citizens Telephone Company of Kecksburg
Citizens Internet Services
http://www.wpa.net

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