FW: Blocking attachments instead of just removing them

[Antony Stone]

On Thursday 28 August 2003 3:32 pm, Kyle Harris wrote:

> That all makes sense, but my hope was to stop the types of viruses that
> are circulating lately that contain no legitimate e-mail, only the virus
> itself in the form of a .pif, .scr., .bat., .vbs, etc.  I was hoping to
> stop these types of messages without sending anything to the sender OR
> the recipient.  Then, if a legitimate e-mail message that happens to
> contain a Word .doc file that has a macro virus appears, it would be
> cleaned and then sent on to it's intended recipient.

I think that sort of thing is pretty rare these days.   Emails now are either
viruses or they aren't.   It's not often you see something that's worth
cleaning the virus out of and then sending on some useful remaining part of
the same attachment.

Most people's solution to this is to notify either the sender or the
recipient (or both) that the email contained a virus, and then they can sort
out between them getting an uninfected copy of the document etc resent later.

Regards,

Antony

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