Lots of us are scanning now and it didn't help with the Love Bug. No virus
definitions until after the damage was done. It's great for known viruses (virii??)
but useless against a brand new one. I'd talk to the school administration and see if
they don't agree that making them zip the files before attaching is worth it.
Dan
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From: "NetQuick Email Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 19:18:11 -0400
>Would that I could, we are just an ISP, not the school. In fact the college
>and the local school district recommend us because of our service. To many
>mangled attachments with AOL (AOHELL). Even our sign-up software is a VB
>application. I think we will have to do this the hard way until the powers
>that be can be induced to put up the money for a bi-directional virus scan
>box. I like the IMGate solution since it will reduce traffic one way and
>that would reduce the load on the virus scan box as well as the mail server.
>Getting there though is like eating elephants, you go one bite ate a time.
>
>Kevin Childers
>Mail Administrator
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>The Carolina's Fastest Internet Service Provider
>www.NetQuick.net
>(910) 486-7845 Ext. 23
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>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Gerry Dalton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 11:52 AM
>Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Check for certain attachments
>
>
>> Tell them to start zipping their files.....that as a security measure you
>> have had to implement this filter.
>> You can put the full names of the ones you want to eliminate too, but that
>> may be real old real fast.
>>
>> Gerry
>
>
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