[Mimedefang] When to do Virus checks

[John Rudd]

Joseph Brennan wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Thursday, November 30, 2006 8:18 -0800 John Rudd <john at rudd.cc> wrote:
> 
>> Joseph Brennan wrote:
>>>
>>> If you reject messages with executable attachments first, let us know
>>> whether the virus check catches anything at all.
>>>
>>
>> There have been viruses that were distributed in non-executable zip
>> files.  Simple attachment checks probably wont catch those.
> 
> 
> Absolutely correct.  You have to be willing to examine zip file contents
> or reject zip files.

Or ... run a virus scanner.  :-)

For my home use, it doesn't matter.  All of the machines in my house are 
Mac's with PowerPC processors running OS X.  The likelihood of a virus 
is vanishingly small.

At work, it's a campus full of varying machines with users of varying 
levels of clue.  Whether it's strictly necessary or not isn't really 
relevant: not running a virus scanner would simply be a lack of due 
diligence.