Quarantine

[Howard Robinson]

On 12 Aug 02, at 11:40, Julian Field wrote:

> At 11:26 12/08/2002, you wrote:
> >My gut feeling is to delete virus infected files however files rejected
> >because the filename rules, and are clean, could be treated differently
> >as they can be renamed to something 'safe' before passing on to the
> >intended recipient.
>
> How might the "safe renaming" happen? We need a general rule that can be
> applied to any "dangerous" filename.
Sorry Julian
 I meant that the renaming could be done manually after a request
from a recipient.

 -- Julian Field
> Teaching Systems Manager jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics
> & Computer Science Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ




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