R. Scott Perry wrote at 01:32 PM 12/07/2001 -0500:
>>>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).
OK, I get it. How about this, gang. Is there a way that an imail virus catcher could
be made to strip the attachment replacing it with verbiage like, "A file attached or
embedded in this message had the potential for carrying a virus. Please contact the
sender for an alternative method of obtaining this file."
Something like search for the mime headers???
Just winging it here.
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