On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:42:25PM -0600,
"John W. Lemons III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> That is true enough, but if the virus can be stopped some of the time before
> it even reaches the end user, why not?
>
Because there are costs in doing so.
Generally if a person needs antivirus protection for a machine, they really
need it for more than email that isn't encrypted. The right place to run it
is on their machine, not on the central mail server. The issue with this is
making sure they get handsoff updates of dat files.
I also think that by using encryption and varient code to do bootstrap
decryptionin viruses, it will make writing patterns that catch a virus
without generating a lot of false positives much harder.
