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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Email virus protection
Crist Clark wrote: > Unless your AV software has a clue, like most do, and unzips archives > and see what's inside. which is ideal for virus scanning, but not for blanket-blocking of email. A zipped archive containing an executable cannot (unless something has changed that I don't know about) be automatically opened by any mail client - the user must make a deliberate attempt to open the archive then exectute the attachment (although the actual extraction can be performed automatically by many decompression utilities if you double-click an executable or document inside its browser) there is of course no allowing for the stupidity of users - but if you have a stupid enough user you could induce him to bypass any protection anyhow.
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