Sam,
On Mon, 09 Jul 2001 22:57:54 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> Howard:
> How can an anti-virus program scan a file for viruses *before*
> the file is downloaded? I have never heard of any virus scanning
> software having such a feature.
I have ... but it is run by the ISP at the POP3 server level.
X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (http://amavis.org/)
The above line appears in every piece of mail I download from my ISP's
POP3. Occasionally I receive a bot-mail stating that "the X virus was
found in e-mail addressed to you from {fill in the blank}. The message
has been deleted.
Since I'm a DOSasaur, I don't appreciate having my messages deleted;
however, all of them so far have either originated with a daemon or an
undisclosed sender.
l.d.
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