It takes a good combination of both ISP and end user to fight spam, I have a tool in this editor for reading msg that allows me to tag a spammer and block the ' user@host that gets by the isp scan tool. Common sense, in these times shows you to not open emails from strangers especially with *.zip files unless they are coming from a known party based on some kind of dialog prior to it being sent and received. -Henry Priyantha <priyantha@wightman.ca> wrote:
At 09:53 PM 03/12/2003, Jamie Reid wrote:
The other thing that worries me is that those who rely on their ISP to scan for viruses, a false sense of security can come into play. In the case of these types of email viruses, the user might think the file is OK because it was scanned.
The AVScanner should indicate that the file couldn't scan because it is password protected and hence opening the file may be risky. Priyantha