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Re: Email virus protection
From: "Dave Howe" <DaveHowe () gmx co uk>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:07:26 +0100
Crist Clark wrote:
Unless your AV software has a clue, like most do, and unzips archives and see what's inside.
which is ideal for virus scanning, but not for blanket-blocking of email. A zipped archive containing an executable cannot (unless something has changed that I don't know about) be automatically opened by any mail client - the user must make a deliberate attempt to open the archive then exectute the attachment (although the actual extraction can be performed automatically by many decompression utilities if you double-click an executable or document inside its browser) there is of course no allowing for the stupidity of users - but if you have a stupid enough user you could induce him to bypass any protection anyhow.
Current thread:
- Re: Email virus protection, (continued)
- Re: Email virus protection Petri Helenius (Aug 20)
- Re: Email virus protection JC Dill (Aug 20)
- Re: Email virus protection Lou Katz (Aug 20)
- Re: Email virus protection JC Dill (Aug 20)
- Re: Email virus protection chuck goolsbee (Aug 20)
- Re: Email virus protection Stephen J. Wilcox (Aug 21)
- Re: Email virus protection Jack Bates (Aug 21)
- Re: Email virus protection Stephen J. Wilcox (Aug 21)
- Re: Email virus protection Jack Bates (Aug 21)
- Re: Email virus protection Crist Clark (Aug 21)
- Re: Email virus protection Dave Howe (Aug 21)
- email virus ==> over the top neal rauhauser (Aug 21)
- Re: email virus ==> over the top Mike Tancsa (Aug 21)
- Re: email virus ==> over the top Joel Jaeggli (Aug 21)
- Re: email virus ==> over the top Steve Carter (Aug 21)
- Re: email virus ==> over the top JC Dill (Aug 21)
- Re: email virus ==> over the top Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 21)
- Re: email virus ==> over the top neal rauhauser (Aug 21)
- Re: Email virus protection Jack Bates (Aug 21)
- Re: email virus ==> over the top Joseph McDonald (Aug 21)
- Re: email virus ==> over the top Susan Zeigler (Aug 21)
- Re: Email virus protection Crist Clark (Aug 21)