Kevin W. Gagel wrote:
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Dennis Peterson & Gerard Seibert wrote:
Because you don't scan outgoing mail I have to scan incoming mail from
you. My usual response when I read this kind of thing is to just go
ahead and blacklist you now rather than later. Please practice safe
messaging.
That makes zero sense. Are you implying that if I were to scan an
outbound message you would eliminate your inbound scan? You do know how
stupid that sounds I assume.
You clearly don't understand the problem. If everyone scanned their
outbound I'd have fewer inbound to scan. I'd still scan them but there
would be far less scanning required. Still sound stupid?
Actually Deniss it is you who doesn't seem to be expressing himself here.
If everyone scanned their outgoing email, the only side effect that would
have is that you would rarely detect a virus on the incoming. You'd still
be scanning the messages that were incoming since there is no way to detect
or verify that a message has in fact been scanned and certified as clean.
The end result MAY be that you scan less, but that is only because the
majority of viruses would be detected and eliminated before they got to
your server. So, in essence you'd still be scanning ALL incoming
messages... Besides, alot of viruses send from workstation rather than go
through mail servers to propogate.
This has been covered. Of course I'd still need to scan messages. It's
like trusting a chap who says he's had a vasectomy - a careful lass will
require a condom anyway. But there is no question the volume of mail I'd
need to scan would go down. And while the discussion has been scanning
for viruses the fact is most of the positives found by ClamAV today are
phishing exploits and spam images, and it finds a hell of a lot of
these. It finds the occasional true virus, too. It finds them because
the sending system did not. Mail sent from workstations only shows
sloppy network firewalling and that should be corrected, too.
dp
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