On Saturday 20 September 2003 4:54 pm, Daniel J McDonald wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 10:40, Antony Stone wrote:
> > A gif is not a virus, so it should not be detected by an anti-virus > > program. > > > > Anyway, what's the point? Why bother blocking a 'damaged' copy of a > > virus, where 'damaged' actually means 'missing'? > > Do you want to receive 200 of these mails, like I did last night? > > Do you want your clueless users calling you all day asking why they > can't find the patch that Microsoft e-mailed them? Are you suggesting that you allow emails with a .exe attachment to be delivered? I regard that as a sufficient reason to block an email, whether the .exe is a virus or not. The zero-length attachments on Gibe.F emails I've seen so far have all had .exe extensions, so they get blocked by my server (although for a different reason) just the same as the real ones. I still maintain that a gif is not a virus, and therefore shouldn't be recognised by an antivirus program, however the beauty of Open Source is that you can change it if you want to, so feel free to create your own signature for the gifs if you want, and put them in the ClamAv directory. I don't think such signatures will make it into the general distribution, though. Regards, Antony. -- Most people are aware that the Universe is big. - Paul Davies, Professor of Theoretical Physics ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
