> >After sending the E-mail, I got a "bounce" message from a server that
> blocked it, thinking it was a virus. Looking at your original rules, it
> looked like your filter should have blocked my original E-mail as
> well. You might want to check to see why it didn't -- I believe that the
> text that I included in the original is exactly what you are trying to
> block on.
>
>Yet another reason to not block viruses. It will mean that we can't even
>talk about .exe or .pif or ... files.
That's actually a problem inherent with keyword filtering, not virus
scanning. Virus scanning in general has an extremely low false positive
rate (I haven't yet seen a virus scanner report a virus in a file that
didn't contain a virus, although it has been known to happen).
-Scott
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