On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Gordon Smith wrote:
I get complaints from our users because the XTRA system happily passes on the remains of the Klez virus - forged headers in messages. Surely your virus scanner can drop those completely... ours does :-)
I think part of the problem is that viruses used to be accidentally sent attached to other files. Thus is made much more sense for your anti-virus software to trying and save as much of the email as possible. Thus Trend's software will first try to remove the virus for then attachment, if it can't do that it will delete the whole attachment and if it can't do that it will block the whole email. This makes sense to me since it's doing the minimum needed to keep the receiver safe. This is especially the case with Xtra's setup where ALL email is being filtered and customers can't opt-out of the system If the anti-virus software just dropped all virus emails to the floor like some in this thread seem to suggest then you would get emails with legit attached viruses (I get them) being completely lost instead of just the virus being removed. As for the privacy aspects, the person who is infected is sending out the files not Xtra. -- Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: simon.lyall(a)ihug.co.nz Senior Network/System Admin | Postmaster | Home: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz ihug, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog