On 10:41 AM 12/7/2001 -0800, it would appear that Michael Welch wrote: >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.
Yes, Scott's already done with Declude virus http://www.declude.com/Virus/index.html easy to setup, easier to use. Tyran Ormond Programmer/LAN Technician Central Valley Water [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
