At the risk of starting a forest fire, I have to say, Jeff, that I think
your response is more than a little childish.
The fact is that a virus problem exists and Microsoft are never going to do
anything about the "features" in their software that allow these viruses to
propagate.
You are correct that xnix servers are not directly affected by Microsoft
type viruses but even the best mail server can be brought to its knees by
the throughput generated by an attack such as "I LOVE YOU".
Internet Mail Servers are the best place to stop viruses. In fact, with good
planning, I see no reason why virus transfer should not be completely
eradicated - If every Internet Mail Server ran anti-virus software, viruses
could only ever attack local networks.
Martyn Routley
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Earickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 3:14 PM
To: Len Conrad
Cc: Subscribers of Qpopper
Subject: Re: virus scan for qpopper?
Y'all,
I've tried amavis in the past, and while it works fairly well, virus
scanning on a mail hub isn't worth it IMHO. The CPU cycles needed to
break out attachments and run them thru a virus scanner are large, and
for all that effort I didn't seem to catch much. It was a
waste of CPU at our site, and I gave up on it. My opinion is that
virii are frankly a Microsoft problem because of the design of their
OS and their use of VB scripts. Microsoft needs to address the problem
at their end...
--- Jeff Earickson
