Email really scanned???

[miesgram]

Hi all together,

Today I got two strange emails both with same attachment, one zipped, the other rared. The Internet-Mail scanner both times marked the mail as a clean message. As the mails looked quite strange I carefully saved the attachments and scanned them manually. Both were Beagle variants! Why did the mail resistant scanner failed.

System: XP Pro + avast 4.6 Home

Thanks

[igor]

That's really strange. It would seem like the mail scanner didn't scan archives (which it should, of course!)...

Do you still have the saved files? If yes - you can try to send them (by e-mail) to yourself and check if they still don't get detected?

[miesgram]

I'm sorry. I deleted both messages after recognizing that they are both infected by a virus!

Greets