Selectively quarantining on virus name

[Julian Field]

At 17:59 21/08/2003, you wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:55:55PM +0100, Julian Field wrote:
> > At 16:03 21/08/2003, you wrote:
> > >mikea wrote:
> > >
> > > > Considering the evolutionary path we see worms/viruses following,
> > > > would it make sense to retain the current "Silent Viruses" list
> > > > for the time being, but add a "Notify About Viruses" list which
> > > > listed the ones for which infection notices should be sent, with
> > > > an eye to eventually removing "Silent Viruses" processing?
> > >
> > >I'd second that, particularly if the "Notify About Viruses" could use
> > >regex matching.  This would be useful since most of the vendors seem to
> > >encode some kind of description of the virus type in its name.  For
> > >example Sophos names Word 97 Macro viruses as WM97/virusname.  This way we
> > >could choose to send notifications for macro viruses (which tend to appear
> > >in documents sent by users) but ignore other types of virus.
> >
> > I could do that. The simpler thing to do is change the default setting in
> > new installations to *not* send sender warnings at all ("Warn Senders =
> no").
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
>I think I'm having a senior moment: I don't find a "Warn Senders"
>option anywhere in my MailScanner install: MailScanner-4.21-9 or in
><http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/man/MailScanner.conf.e.html>.
>
>Is this newer, am I just looking past it, or did you mean "Send
>Notices"?

No, I meant "Notify Senders" :-)
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