rant about anti-virus and spam, MS flamed

Leonard Hermens Leonard.Hermens at POTLATCHCORP.COM
Wed Jan 28 23:43:52 GMT 2004


At 03:17 PM 1/28/2004, Kevin Spicer wrote:
>On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 23:09, Leonard Hermens wrote:
> > At 03:04 PM 1/28/2004, Matt Kettler wrote:
> > >Can you cite an example of when, at the present time, it is a good idea to
> > >have a mailserver configured to auto respond to a sender and notify them
> > >that a message sent contained a live virus infection?
> >
> > Any virus or macro virus that is sent manually by the sender.
>
>How will you know?

Not all viruses automatically email themselves. That's the point to my
answer. He wanted an example and I gave one. :)



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