Re: I HATE antivirus scanners

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:33:18 EST, Mike Lisanke <lisanke () us ibm com>  said:

> able see the 'source' that it was complaining about. I would like to
> understand why my server's anti-virus filter would
> react at all to anything besides a binary. I take it that the original was

Because some vendor's operating systems are very lax on what formats a virus
can be in - when even HTML and JPGs are considered executable binaries,
you need to scan those too for such malware as can be hidden in them....
-- 
                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Senior Engineer
                                Virginia Tech

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