On Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 20:46:29GMT -0600 (which was 9:46 PM where I live) Joseph N. wrote and made these points on the subject of "Nod32": JN> David,
JN> On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, David Calvarese wrote in JN> <mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: DC>> however, it doesn't scan outgoing emails... JN> FWIW, I think that scanning outgoing e-mail is a complete waste of JN> resources and time. If I take sufficient precautions, the chances are JN> slim that I as a sender would be sending out malicious code JN> inadvertently; when I am the recipient, someone else's statement that JN> their e-mail has been scanned on its way to me is meaningless. How JN> recent were the definition files that were used? How truthful is the JN> statement? Through what intermediate servers did it pass? For what JN> specific types of code did the sender scan? And, more to the point, JN> what do you do differently when you get a supposedly pre-scanned JN> message? It's not like you turn off your own scanner or exclude the JN> message from future scans. For all those reasons and more, I think JN> that outgoing code scanning is meaningful only, and only to a limited JN> degree, if it is performed by a web mail service on a regular basis JN> and, therefore, might justify an exception to an otherwise tight spam JN> filter. I'd be interested in others' comments on this. I prefer to have it scan, as I have TB! filtering infected mails into a folder, especially ones that can't be cleaned that I would then forward on to the AV company. I'd prefer to know before one was accidently sent out to someone for some reason, just for my peace of mind, whether anyone else knows that I'm scanning it before sending it or not. -- Best regards, David Member of E-mailaholics International PGP Key at http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCC7E7664&template=netenextract,netennomatch,netenerror Brought to you by the letters W,I,N,D,O,W and S, and the numbers 9 and 5. Using The Bat! v1.62i on Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
