Removing virus

[jdow]

From: "Gerry Doris" <gdoris at rogers.com>
> On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 13:09, J.L. Coenders wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Because of this list I started scanning for viri, and f-prot found
these:
> >
> >
/home/concrete/ziUwqg3h->Mail/trash/cur/1068532513.4595.UZ9s:2,S->photos.zip
->photos.jpg.exe
> > Infection: W32/Mimail.C at mm
> > Virus-infected files in archives cannot be deleted.
> >
/home/concrete/ziUwqg3h->Mail/trash/cur/1068619179.15917.kED8:2,S->photos.zi
p->photos.jpg.exe
> > Infection: W32/Mimail.C at mm
> > Virus-infected files in archives cannot be deleted.
> >
/home/concrete/ziUwqg3h->Mail/trash/cur/1068704329.16677.Ej03:2,S->photos.zi
p->photos.jpg.exe
> > Infection: W32/Mimail.C at mm
> > Virus-infected files in archives cannot be deleted.
> >
/home/concrete/ziUwqg3h->Mail/trash/cur/1070394195.26872.uAWX:2,S->Document0
03.pif
> > Infection: W32/Sobig.A at mm
> > Virus-infected files in archives cannot be deleted.
> >
/home/concrete/ziUwqg3h->Mail/trash/cur/1071647642.18231.E4C0:2,S->QL.exe
> > Infection: W32/Swen.A at mm
> > Virus-infected files in archives cannot be deleted.
> >
> > Does anyone recognise these files and know if they can be removed? Or
how I
> > can remove them?
> >
> > Jeroen
>
> Just delete the archive ie delete photos.zip, Document003.pif etc.  The
> message means that f-prot can't go into a zip file and delete the
> infected portion.

Indeed, those particular email messages have nothing in them to repair.
Their contents are entirely spurious and virus containing. Delete them
out of hand. If it is someone else's email delete the virus containing
email and send a note to the user that the virus was deleted if you feel
you must do anything at all. Include only the headers from the original
email.

{^_^}