this Dennis Peterson spake: > Todd Lyons said: > >>Matt Fretwell wanted us to know: >> >> >>>>as it is harder to scan those messages for viruses >>> >>>Nonsense. Mail is mail. If you are running a mailserver, it should be >>>able to cope with all types of mail, irrelevant of (creation|submission) >>>method. >> >>Nonsense. A user clicks on a webmail message, opens the the trojan >>du jour, and whammo, the whole company is infected by the exploit that >>is unleashed * FROM * WITHIN * without ever having passed through a >>virus scanner on your side. Think bigger scale. > > > This will make more sense if you explain that you are clicking on a > webmail page from Yahoo, Gmail, or Hotmail. Internal webmail servers can > be integrated with internal smtp servers and filters. The problem is not > webmail - the problem is any content that is not scanned that user's can > browse or download.
question of definition and scale of drawing the environment: http://lurker.clamav.net/message/20050505.154118.95a76774.en.html it should be off list, really ;) > > dp cheers, -- Timo Schoeler | http://macfinity.net/~tis | [EMAIL PROTECTED] //macfinity -- finest IT services | http://macfinity.net Key fingerprint = F844 51BE C22C F6BD 1196 90B2 EF68 C851 6E12 2D8A There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't. _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
