In SIMS Digest #1381, Daniel Solomons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>As far as I know, SIMS does not block viruses. Any plans?
Hopefully not!!! If you want to protect yourself against virii, do it on the
machine
that needs protection!
The problems associated with attempting to do Virus Scanning on a "gateway"
(in
this case a "mail gateway") are numerous, including (but not limited to):
1) What kind of virii do you scan for ? PC ? Mac ? BSD-Unix ? Linux ?
OS/390 ?
2) What sort of encodings do you decode to look for said virii ? PKZIP ?
StuffIt ? MIME ? BinHex ? UUEncode ?
3) How often do you update the "patterns" the scanner looks for ?
4) What sort of supercomputer are you going to run this virus-scanning
e-mail gateway on ?
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