Apparent MessageLabs disclaimer

[Julian Field]

They use McAfee, one other commercial one which changes every now and then,
and their own in-house "Skeptic" scanner. And all their spam detection is
based around SpamAssassin.

At 09:14 05/03/2004, you wrote:
>Quentin
>
>Given that they use most, if not all of the commercial scanners it
>doesn't surprise me. Probably just covering themselves as they can't
>guarentee to scan this stuff.
>
>
>--
>Martin Hepworth
>Snr Systems Administrator
>Solid State Logic
>Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
>Quentin Campbell wrote:
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Drew Marshall [mailto:drew at THEMARSHALLS.CO.UK]
>>>Sent: 03 March 2004 19:28
>>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>>Subject: Re: 4.28.4, works great!
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>>Just another point that made me smile today, I happened to notice that
>>>on the bottom of an automated signature from a company that pays $$$ to
>>>Messagelabs they were stating: 'This message has been scanned by
>>>Messagelabs for viruses, it should be noted that we can not scan
>>>encrypted or password protected messages'. Looks like even the mighty
>>>Messagelabs have not worked a fix yet!!
>>
>>
>>Drew
>>
>>I have been looking on the MessageLab site for confirmation of this but
>>can find no acknowledgment from them that they are unable to deal with
>>password-protected/encrypted archives in attachments.
>>
>>Can you provide further information and a copy of the disclaimer you
>>received?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Quentin
>>---
>>PHONE: +44 191 222 8209    Information Systems and Services (ISS),
>>                            University of Newcastle,
>>                            Newcastle upon Tyne,
>>FAX:   +44 191 222 8765    United Kingdom, NE1 7RU.
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>"Any opinion expressed above is mine. The University can get its own."
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