Re: [ql-users] Virus

[Timothy Swenson]

At 08:25 PM 8/5/2001 +0100, you wrote:

> >The best solution I reckon is for originating ISPs to filter emails
>with
> >attachments for virii.
> >Mind you we are then getting into privacy issues.

Since virus scanners only look at files at the binary level (comparing 
binary sequences to known virii),
there really is not a privacy issue.  I don't know about NT boxes, but it 
would be fairly simple to have SendMail pass off mail to a virus filter.

Tim Swenson