ClamAV + worm in mbox file

Will Backman whb at ceimaine.org
Tue May 25 13:45:14 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 22:20, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> 	I recently just installed ClamAV on my system and upon scanning my
> mailing list mbox files, it reported a worm (Worm.Wallon.?? something
> like that)
> 
> if I tried with the --remove line, my whole mbox file gets deleted.
> 
> Is there anyway to remove the virus without deleting my whole mbox
> file??
> 
> Thanks
> -- 
> 
If you use a mail systems that stores messages as one per file, you
should be ok.  With standard unix mbox, all messages are together as one
big file.





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