On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 09:47:07AM -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > > clicks on the .eml attachment - and gets infected... > > I don't think that's a valid argument. If the user's mail server is AV protected > then the mail server won't deliver an infected email in the first place. If the
!!! But no-one else in the world is running AV!!! Seriously - that has got to ALWAYS be a design feature of any product. You have to assume no-one else is capable of dealing with it. I don't fancy this concept of reducing load on our servers and making viruses someone elses problem. If the virus has got to your Q-S server, then BY DEFINITION the SMTP client currently connected to you isn't running an effective AV system. This is a two-way street. We want to protect ourselves from bad things, and at the same time protect the world from bad things we generate. And we'd like everyone else to do the same thing. You don't see Q-S suggesting to only scan incoming email... -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
