This is a reply only regarding the "to filter mail or not to filter" question and the general antiviral policy. Well, here's my two cents... <2cents> We've "demoronised" NT 4 Workstation-powered PCs as standard desktops and Linux file/network servers - note, no Win9x or NT 4 servers. The Linux box runs IPchains with a secure kernel and is connected to a 256K DSL - pretty enough for a small office with a dozen computers. Now, the important part: none of the NT boxes has MSIE, Outlook or any blatantly insecure stuff like that. Excuse me, but when there are a dozen security patches for an application and new serious security holes found in *each new version*, that app has to be in the "black list". Without the WSH, the MSIE and the Outlook, most of the "viruses" coming out lately, the VBS ones, are harmless. I just don't filter any mail for anything, only do a simple scan on the arriving mail on the local POP3 proxy for executables. Another simple but effective technique is to never install programmes into their default locations and have more than one partition on the desktops' drives. Migrating mail can be a bit of a headache, but it avoids a lot of pain in the future; in my case, we didn't even have to migrate mail because most people use Eudora or Netscape Messenger. The result: during the first week of May I took a vacation, and the first time we got an iworm-loveletter it did absolutely nothing. And not to say we don't have lots of mail coming in (I work for a news company). </2cents> - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
