[Mimedefang] Another silly idea
Steffen Kaiser
skmimedefang at smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de
Wed May 3 02:56:40 EDT 2006
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Craig Green wrote:
>
> WBrown at e1b.org wrote:
>> My thinking is why not add them to an RBL if they have sent a virus in the
>> past week or two,
> [munch]
>> Even if it is a "legitmate" mail server, I cannot think of any reason to
>> trust it if it does not have functioning antivirus software running.
>
> I tried this. Turns out a shocking number of ISPs and businesses don't
> bother running AV software on their outbound servers and just blindly relay
> their users' mail.
Well, there is yet another possibility:
The AV software the ISP is running did simply not detected that particular
malware.
Bye,
--
Steffen Kaiser
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