Christopher X. Candreva wrote:

>> I agree that anti-virus software should look for viruses and either reply
>> "virus found" or "virus not found".   The latter is not, of course, the same
>> as saying "no virus present".
> 
> Yes, but in the same way you might get a "Can't open file, no permissions"
> error, a "Can't open zip, password protected" message would be helpfull.

Yes, that would be very helpful. a milter can then be setup to decide based
on company policy to delete or continue sending the mail with the protected
zip. Without such a response from the Virus-Scanner, this is impossible to
do and the recent ourbreak prooves something like this is indeed necessary.

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Stefan Seiz <http://www.StefanSeiz.com>
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