I think people often forget that a recognizable virus
signature may often be encoded in such a way
(uuencode, zip, zip w/encryption, mime etc..)
that any scanner will always miss some method,
besides the ones that can't be scanned (any strong
encryption.) That's why I think it more useful to spend
one's time picking the antivirus package for your
desktop that best meets your needs, that can do
its job when the virus etc... is unencoded/unpacked/
unencrypted etc..
Ryan
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To: jwojn
cc: firewalls
From: scanner @ webspan.net (Chris Watson) @ smtp
Date: 05/29/96 06:10:19 PM
Subject: Re: Email Virus Scanner
On Wed, 29 May 1996, Wojno, Jim wrote:
> 2.4), that could scan all incoming mail for any virus code. So far, we
> haven't come up with much.
Anyone else ROFL as hard as i am?
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