[Mimedefang] TESTVIRUS.org - test question

Dirk Mueller dmuell at gmx.net
Sat Feb 28 18:11:36 EST 2004


On Saturday 28 February 2004 23:15, Rob wrote:

> Why should I care - if it finds a virus in the email then the email gets
> dropped in the bit bucket (or quarantined).  At that point it becomes
> utterly irrelevant *where* the virus is in the email.

That might be the case for your filter, but anybody not running it for his own 
pleasure most likely does not run such a configuration. 

Besides that, there are things called "false positives" which do happen from 
time to time. 



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