Bug#959004: exim4-daemon-heavy: exiscan is missing EICAR signature in message body but finds it in attachment

Andreas Metzler ametzler at bebt.de
Mon May 11 16:24:32 BST 2020


On 2020-04-29 brunoc68 <bugs01 at abcreseau.com> wrote:
[...]
> Actually the virus filtering works, but only with the attachments. The
> issue is the body of the email that goes through with the eicar
> signature ; so I expect any html virus in the body can go through...
[...]

Hello,

Are you positive you are testing this correctly?

swaks -s mail.server -f sender at address -t rcpt at adress --body 'X5O!P...'

Replace X5O!P... with the full tests string from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file

cu Andreas
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