Why does a message without an attachment get scanned by GMS Anti-Virus as though it had an attachment?

Answer

There was an issue with messages that contained a line beginning with the word "begin" being treated as though they had UUE attachments by GMS Anti-Virus.

We have now changed the way we detect UU encoded attachments and the scanning of parts of messages as attachments when they were just plain text no longer happens.

See Also:

• Why is it better to use #GMSAV# rather than a third party anti-virus solution?
• What is UUEncode?
• How can I be confident that GMS Anti-Virus protects my messaging server from email viruses?
• Does GMS Anti-Virus work against malformed MIME and UUEncode files?

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