On 04 Mar (11:41), Sean Lee wrote: > Sorry about an off-the-topic-remark, but I think a-v software does work > more often than it doesn't. > Besides, how do you expect, say, an insurance company to ban Excel or Word > attachments? > It's more expensive/inconvenient to implement a no-attachment policy and > create a productive work-around. > > Sean > P.S. My old employer used to ban certain attachments, so we had to rename > file extensions to get past those restrictions :-)
I'm using sophos av and qmail-scanner for more than 1,5 years now. Only having 30 public addresses, I filtered a lot of e-mails: # wc -l quarantine.log 8694 quarantine.log Yes, it's totally useless and I'm feeling like an idiot. We have a Microsoft free setup concerning Internet software (No Outlook, No IE, ...), but only one person klicking on the wrong file (Virii where more interesting a year ago, these days they are stupid mass mailers) resulted in one day forced vacation for 30 people, to reconstruct the file sharing systems and clean the workstations from backup. This is a lot more expensive than any antivirus software. -- Christian Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://incubus.de/~turin/
