Re: Virus Checking - COMPLETELY UNENCUMBERED!
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:31:11AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 07:56:00AM +1200, Matthew Grant wrote:
> > Does ScannerDaemon (that GPLed java daemon) detect all the Klez worms
> > reliably? Or does its database need updating? If clam AV is not
> > algorithmically at fault, then it means we can go ahead and package it.
>
> Frankly, it would be good if someone would add to the useful procmail
> recipes a filter to remove any executable attachments from an email
> outright or mark them as spam or delete them or something. NOBODY should
> be emailing an executable. A zip maybe, an image okay. An executable,
> particularly a win32 executable is almost guaranteed to be a virus.
Well in the windows business it is quite common with self extracring
binaries. But yes it is a huge risk.
Regards,
// Ola
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