[pchelpers] Re: McAfee scans when sending / protocol error

Hi Ekhart,

Wednesday, June 22, 2005, 12:16:08 AM, you wrote:

EGlnl> Many security experts advise against scanning all incoming and
EGlnl> especially outgoing email. If you have a clean system and an
EGlnl> active antivirus program (i.e. with a function usually called
EGlnl> "resident" or "background" or "virus shield" or something like
EGlnl> that), that will prevent you from opening/activating any
EGlnl> malicious code in an email or its attachment. I have many
EGlnl> virus-infected emails in my Junk folder, but they don't hurt me
EGlnl> or anyone else because they have not been activated, and they
EGlnl> can't be; if i were stupid enough to try to open them, my
EGlnl> antivirus program would block that.

Well, you probably want to scan at least the incoming, in order to
avoid being a Typhoid Mary, if you're the type to forward lots of
mail.

-- 
Scott.




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