[Mimedefang] for mcafee lovers

Roland Pope rpope at jadeworld.com
Tue Mar 22 21:38:56 EST 2005


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Brennan" <brennan at columbia.edu>
> We run no AV scanners, because we reject mail with executable file
> attachments and zip files.  To my knowledge we have accepted absolutely
> zero email viruses in the two years or so since we implemented this.
> Mimedefang made this possible.

You would need to reject HTML email too to prevent HTML exploits (Unless you 
are using text only mail readers).
And I guess Phishing attacks are not strictly viruses, even though many AV 
vendors block them.

Roland 




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