Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AntiVirus(3pm)

Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AntiVirus3pm

Simple anti-virus tests

Usage

  loadplugin     Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AntiVirus
  body MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE eval:check_microsoft_executable()
  body MIME_SUSPECT_NAME    eval:check_suspect_name()

Overview

The MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE rule works by checking for 3 possibilities in the message in any application/* or text/* part in the message:

- in text parts, look for a uuencoded executable start string
- in application parts, look for filenames ending in an executable extension
- in application parts, look for a base64 encoded executable start string

Releases

11 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 10 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9
  7. 10
  8. 11
  9. 12
  10. 13
  11. Arch

From spamassassin 4.0.2-3 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.