On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Jeremy Clyma wrote:
Sorry, posted privately by mistake, reply to Juha as follows: (with English corrected)
And I'll put it back again, that we don't know the attachment _is_ the result of virus activity. We can make a very educated assumption, but we don't know for sure.
And my reply to the list as well: True, it can be tough call, if it's just a single attachment and not e.g. Klez, which is known to pick files at random and send them out willy-nilly. However, if you see lots of attachments with viruses like Klez in them going out from a single user, then I'd say you'd be justified in dropping them, no matter what BS thinks Like I said to you in a private message, you should probably consider making the AV scanning optional and get some sort of consent/agreement from the users to cover your butts. -- Juha Saarinen - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog