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Is there something you have to do to set up the virus scanning or did it just miss those?
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I think I can answer your questions:
1. There is nothing that you have to do on your end to configure this feature. There is a Anti-Virus Gateway that intercepts offending transmissions and quarantines them before they get to the mail server.
2. We were a bit slow in updating the anti-virus signature code on the gateway. I believe it was 1/2 day before we got the latest revision up after it was released. (this release contained the anti-virus signatures for the SirCam worm/virus) It has been fully functional for the past several days however..
3. The way that this insidious virus gets transmitted is quite unique. It appears to scour content on your computer (INCLUDING CACHED WEB PAGES THAT YOU HAVE VIEWED!) for e-mail addresses to use to send itself to others!
[red]" 10. The worm contains its own SMTP engine which is used for the email routine. It obtains email addresses through two different methods:
It searches the folders that are referred to by the registry keys
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MicrosoftWindows\CurrentVersion\ExplorerShell Folders\Cache
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MicrosoftWindows\CurrentVersion\ExplorerShell Folders\Personal
for sho*., get*., hot*., *.htm files, and copies email addresses from there into the file %system%\sc?1.dll" [/red]
For more info on this :
[url]www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/
[email protected][/url]
Please let us (goatboy or myself) know if you receive any virus/worm that was NOT trapped and removed by the AR15.com mail system.
Thanks,
RBAD