On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, David Eisner wrote: > The problem is that in general there is a delay between the time a virus > outbreak occurs, and the time that virus scanners have updated DATs that > detect it. That's one of the great things about Mimedefang -- it > removes the potentially harmful attachment during this window.
MIMEDefang won't recursively scan a zip file. To scan the "table of contents" of a zip file is relatively safe, and if you have Archive::Zip, you can use re_match_in_zip_directory to detect "dangerous" files in a zip. However, to actually decompress a zip file is not safe (decompression bombs can hurt), so we don't do that. Regards, David. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
