Virus Scan Order

Desai, Jason jase at SENSIS.COM
Thu Jun 3 22:17:33 IST 2004


Not sure about the actual load, the it certainly takes my server a longer
amount of time to do spam checks than to do virus checks, and I'm running
with 2 virus scanners.

Jase

Martin Hepworth wrote:
> Thirded
>
> IMHO everything should be scanned for malware - just in case I forget
> and release something I shouldn't...
>
> Yes I know it increases load, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.
>
>
> Randal, Phil wrote:
>> I'd vote for scanning everything for viruses, before spam checks.
>>
>> Phil
>>
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>> Phil Randal
>> Network Engineer
>> Herefordshire Council
>> Hereford, UK
>>
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>>> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Gib Gilbertson
>>> Sent: 03 June 2004 00:10 To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>> Subject: Re: Virus Scan Order
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>>> On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 17:58:16 +0100, Glen Willms
>>> <glen.willms at RIVERSIDE.BC.CA> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Is there a way to scan messages for virii before the Spam checks?
>>>> It would be really nice to not have virii show up as spam, or
>>>
>>> get added to
>>>
>>>> the bayes database.
>>>
>>> Maybe at least scan all low scoring spam for viruses?
>>>
>>> gib
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