[ILUG] [OT] FYI: Don't trust MIMEsweeper

[Moloney, Mark]

MIMEsweeper once bounced a plain text message back to me saying that it was
infected with a virus.

Ah... but of course, it was Outlook's idea of plain text... can Outlook
reliably be set to send genuine (which I reckon means UUencoded) plain text
messages?



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  Mark Moloney
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lars Hecking [mailto:lhecking at nmrc.ie]
Sent: Wednesday, 14 June, 2000 11:53
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: [ILUG] [OT] FYI: Don't trust MIMEsweeper



 Previous messages to this list indicate that some sites are using
 MIMEsweeper to scan outgoing messages for viruses. I just wanted
 to let everyone know that my hacked-up postfix/amavis-perl/sophos
 config caught a copy of the 'Troj/Knijpme' trojan in a mail message
 signed by MIMEsweeper.

| This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by
| MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses.

 ROFL.