W32/Sobig.F virus header

[S Mohan]

Customising the header will help you know whether your server scanned the
message. The message could have passed thro' many mailscanners before
reaching your machine. Trusting others to have virus signatures updated is
resting too much faith on others. By the same coin, you must also force scan
of all messages passing thro' irrespective of header saying it has been
found clean. Better to be safe than sorry, I guess.

Mohan

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
Behalf Of Francois Caen
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 8:57 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: W32/Sobig.F virus header


-----Original Message-----
From: John Rudd [mailto:jrudd at UCSC.EDU]

> Frankly, if you're using that as your header, you deserve to get
blocked by random hosts out on the net.
> Customize your headers.

OK, call me stupid, but please give me a valid response.
I never felt a need to customize the "X-MailScanner: Found to be clean"
header. It seems perfectly appropriate to me!

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Network Information Systems Engineer - Webmaster
City of Lakewood, WA
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