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Subject: Re: virus checking
From: Pavel Galynin <pgalynin @ chipnet . cz>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 12:32:25 +0100
To: Mike Stoico <mstoico @ metlife . com>
Cc: lists @ reflections . mindspring . com, firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
References: <8525644B . 0070C906 . 00 @ MetGwy02 . metlife . com>

Mike Stoico wrote:
> 
> Mike Stoico @ METLIFE
> 02/27/97 04:35 PM
> 
> In addition, you're gonna have to put some sort of virus scanning at the
> client anyway if they're doing any sort of encryption.  This is only place
> where the message can be decrypted and scanned.
Files which aren't reliable shouldn't be encrypted, and the files that 
are encrypted should be reliable, so that you wouldn't have to check it.
My strong belief is, that anything that poses such a security threat as 
virii, IRC, FTP and HTTP should be kept on machines outside of the 
firewall.
							Paul.


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