Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1932 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Tuesday 2008-07-01 at 08:50 +0100, G T Smith wrote:

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> These results are appalling. They basically suggests that clamAV is
> effectively useless and Antivir is worse than Norton (which is really
> going some). The significant number of mail related viruses will
> probably be blocked by any spam filtering (which in itself is not
> intended for the purpose) but this does not reduce the risks here. The
> much hard work done by many to get these thing to work well is somewhat
> undermined if they are not fit for purpose as this is suggesting.
> Anything under %99.9 in an AV filter is basically unacceptable

Simply kill all mail containing any type of windows executables and you 
are safe: no need for an AV. The only problem is if you do need to email 
code.

Amavis has a filter for this.

The doubt then would be macro type virus.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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