You have to uudecode the files after you unpack them. Do a search for uudecode.exe or an unpack program that can handle .uue files. Then you might have to uncompress the files if the AV program you are using can't scan inside archives. If so check out PAext in the PAutils at http://www.powerarchiver.com it can decompress many formats and doesn't have to be told what the file format is.
Bill >---------- >From: Tracy[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 2:15 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [xmail] OT: Virus filters and munpack > >This is somewhat off-topic, in that it doesn't relate specifically to >xmail, but rather to an anti-virus filter that I am attempting to write. > >I seem to be having problems with the munpack.exe program out of the XAV >filter that has been discussed here and is linked from the XMail homepage. >Note that I am not using the XAV filter directly, preferring to write my own. > >When my filter runs munpack.exe, the message is "unpacked" and split into >it's component pieces, but the pieces are not decoded. For instance, an >email I am using for test has the eicar.com file placed in it, and when >munpack finishes, the "unpacked" file contains (each line prefixed in the >mail editor with ">" to get past my outbound MUA virus scanner): > > > > >begin 600 eicar.com > >M6#5/(5`E0$%06S1<4%I8-30H4%XI-T-#*3=])$5)0T%2+5-404Y$05)$+4%. > >75$E625)54RU415-4+49)3$4A)[EMAIL PROTECTED]"H` > >` > >end > >rather than the actual binary information. Note that munpack did name the >file "eicar.com", it just didn't decode the information that should have >been in the file. > >I'm running this from Windows 2000 Server, using XMail 1.16. My filter >program launches munpack with the following command line: > >E:\mpack\munpack.exe -t > >The working directory is the directory where the files should be unpacked >(in this particular case, >"C:\WINNT\System32\Temp\1062363219133.2448.karen.dir"). > >Note that I am redirecting STDIN and sending the text of the message from >my filter app to munpack's (redirected) STDIN. > >Any suggestions would be appreciated.... > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
