[sanesecurity] Re: Blocking the "here you have" malware payload

GrayHat wrote:

> Uh... "errorWHAT" ? See, if we talk about mailservers or in any
> case mailfilters, those use the socket interface and I can't see

There are a plethora of Mailservers that use ClamDScan and there is
actually no reason why they shouldn't. Using the socket interface is
surely more efficient but it's not that calling ClamDScan for each mail
causes that much overhead.

> how they may return such an error; it's up to the "client" (in our

Simple: ClamD returns 'FOUND' in the stream and it could as well return
'SUSPECT' or something similar. BTW: That's why I had put the
'errorlevel' in brackets.

Best regards,

Nico

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