Chris Gauch wrote:
> We are currently running ClamAV (0.86.2) in a Linux Sendmail (8.13.4)
> and MIMEDefang (2.53)
> our logs indicate that over 86 attachments have been
> flagged as "suspicious" by ClamAV 0.86.2 over the past couple of
> days.  We're beginning to wonder how many of those "suspicious"
> attachments were actually legit Microsoft documents.  Any insight or
> investigation into this issue would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks. 

MIMEDefang has a "suspicious characters in headers" check.  This is unrelated 
to ClamAV.

A frequently-made customization to mimedefang-filter is to change 
action_discard to action_bounce for suspicious characters.  That at least takes 
care of false positives.  YMMV.

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Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com               805.964.4554 x902
Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com       Software Engineer
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