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Virus Scan Notices in eMail
From: bk () LOCALHOST CA (Brian Kifiak)
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:34:04 -0700
Hi, Could someone enlighten me as to why many server-side eMail virus scanners add this information to eMails they scan? ****** Message from InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT ****** ** No virus found in attached file noname.htm ***************** End of message *************** Is there something I'm missing, or isn't this actually a BAD thing? If users get comfort from seeing messages like this, what's to stop someone from adding this to an eMail containing a virus they want to spread? Wouldn't the user be more likely to open it? (Assuming your virus slipped through their detection mechanism undetected.)
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- Re: Another new worm??? (technical) sigipp () WELLA COM BR (Jun 26)
- Re: Another new worm??? (technical) Pierre Vandevenne (Jun 27)
- Virus Scan Notices in eMail Brian Kifiak (Jun 27)
- Re: Virus Scan Notices in eMail Bluefish (Jun 28)
- Re: Virus Scan Notices in eMail Colleen Tibbs (Jun 28)
- Re: Virus Scan Notices in eMail Brian Kifiak (Jun 28)
- Re: Virus Scan Notices in eMail Bluefish (Jun 29)