On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:33:09 -0500
Kris Deugau <kdeu...@vianet.ca> articulated:
> Steven Stern wrote:
> > Checking outgoing mail is pointless. Why bother?
>
> So you can reduce malware propagation? (And as a result, maybe not
> end up on everyone's local blacklist for spewing garbage...)
It is still pointless and a waste of processing power.
> > If I were mailing malware, I'd be sure to mark that it had been
> > scanned, approved, and was safe to open.
>
> *nod* I won't trust third-party headers claiming mail is safe or
> non-spam... I *will* happily trust third-party headers that say it's
> malicious or spam.
Again, pointless. I do not believe that there is any industrial
standard or RFC that specifically states how to insert a header that
that marks an e-mail as infected. Then you would have to consider, was
it SPAM, a Trojan or something else and was it discovered via some
heuristic examination of the document. You could probably craft a whole
set of filters to exam the e-mail headers, etc, but why bother. Simply
employing your own AV software is a lot simpler, and probably more
reliable.
--
Jerry
ges...@yahoo.com
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