Is there a way to tell qmail-scanner what to check first when scanning?

For example, this Exploit.IFrame.Download virus/worm appears to
sometimes send a .exe attachment. I have configured qmail-scanner to
disallow .exe and .pif (and other) attachments and have also told
qmail-scanner that 'iframe' should be treated as a "silent" virus.   

What appears to be happening is that qmail-scanner disallows the .exe
attachment, and notifies the sender (who didn't send the message since
it was spoofed) that "Executable attachements are disallowed". This
happens before my antivirus scanner is ever called, which means that
qmail-scanner never knows that this is actually a virus, so it never
knows the virus's name, and therefore can not treat it as one of my
'silent viruses' . 

Also, these then appear in my logs as hits on "executables not allowed"
rather than a hit as "Exploit.IFrame.Download" so I can not acurately
track and report on them.

A quick solution to stop innocent people from getting notifications on
these is to re-allow .EXE attachements, but a little more research
reveals that this particular virus/worm seems to randomly send .exe or
.pif or .scr attachments so I would be forced to allow all of them
again.

Any ideas/comments/help?  

As always, thanks for any help.


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Bill Arlofski
Unix/Novell Systems Administrator
The Hotchkiss School
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