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On Wed, 4 Jul 2001 10:25:27 +0800, Thomas graced us with these comments:
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ACM>> Wouldn't the anti-virus program have to be optimised to handle TB message
ACM>> bases in order to locate and extract just the virus from the message base
ACM>> file? Otherwise it will delete the entire message base when you ask that
ACM>> the infected file be deleted.
TF> Correct. For any AV-program, the whole message base is one file. In
TF> order to identify the message with the attachment in its body, you
TF> have export all messages, which makes them seperate *.msg files. And
TF> then scan these individual files.
Ok then. This isn't surprising.
ACM>> The only way I can see you knowing exactly which message is infected is
ACM>> when the message is scanned upon receipt
TF> No, because the error message will identify the file bat1276.tmp as
TF> the infected one. Yes, this is the message, but you don't know right
TF> away which one it is.
So what do you do in that situation? Manually inspect all your recently
downloaded mail?
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