[Mimedefang] Another silly idea

[Steffen Kaiser]

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