VIRUS (Worm.SCO.A) IN YOUR MAIL (fwd)

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> writes:

> While I think that might be partially true (rejecting mail for an
> offending attachment is dumb), I don't think sending a notification
> is dumb at all.  On a number of occasions my e-mail has been blocked
> because the message was PGP-signed, and the signature was considered
> an unknown and/or malicious attachment type.

There is a big difference between sending a bounce because it has an
unknown attachment, and sending a bounce for "known virus content".
I agree that the former should continue to happen, but the latter
should not.

-derek
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