TechnoToys: scanning for mail viruses with ClamAV under MacOSX [O.T.]

[Mark Guertin]

Great tip for OSX users, but why post to a linux discussion list? :P

Would be more appropriate had you included instructions for linux,  
and maybe a procmail recipe or two that use clamscan ;)

Mark

On May 10, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:

> The Clam AntiVirus software,
>
>     http://www.clamav.net
>
> runs under MacOSX.
>
> To get a working version there are three choices:
>
>         * roll your own,
>         * download/build using Fink,
>         * download a package built by Mark Allan
>                 http://www.markallan.co.uk/clamXav/
>
> Mail.app, the stock mail program that comes with MacOSX, supports the
> creation of mail filters, which Apple calls Rules. One possible action
> in a Rule is to invoke an Applescript.
>
> I searched the web for an Applescript that would filter email through
> ClamAV, but did not find one.  I contacted Mark Allan, the  
> maintainer of
> clamXav, and was told that to his knowledge none existed. So..., I  
> wrote
> one.
>
> Attached is an Applescript [in text format] that will filter email
> through the Clam AntiVirus scanner. Upon detecting infected email:
>
>         * subject is prefixed with "***INFECTED***"
>         * message is tagged as "Junk"
>         * message is moved to mailbox "Junk"
>
> -Joseph
>
> -- 
> joseph_sacco [at] comcast [dot] net
>
> <clamAVscan.applescript>
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