Problem with cyrus and deleting a message with a virus.

[Connie Starr Fensky]

We run Interscan VirusWall--it only deleted the infected attachment, and
leaves the message intact (with a note inside telling the user that the
attachment was deleted). This makes for some confusion (the user still wants
the attachment, thinking it is real mail, and not just a virus. That seems
to be a hard concept), but leaves cyrus unaffected. Are there any viruses
that infect the whole message? I cannot think of any, maybe you can modify
the uvscan program to just delete the attachment, instead of the whole
message?
c*
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark London" <mrl at PSFC.MIT.EDU>
To: <INFO-CYRUS at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 3:07 PM
Subject: Problem with cyrus and deleting a message with a virus.


> Hi - We are running uvscan, and it will delete a cyrus message file that
> contains a virus.  Of course, cyrus doesn't know that the message is
deleted,
> so it still shows that message, albeit it shows up as being from Unknown
with
> (no subject).  The problem is that this message can't be deleted, no
matter
> what method the user tries.  The only solution we have found is to replace
the
> deleted message with a dummy file, and then it can be deleted.  We can't
be
> the only one having this problem.  Do other people run virus scanning
> software, like uvscan, on their server?  Thanks. -   Mark
>
>