Re: Virus Scanning of EMail

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From: Stefan Davids
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 00:00

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>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Clayton <richard@turnpike.com> writes:

    Richard> In article
    Richard> <919637446.4188.2.nnrp-07.9e989747@news.demon.co.uk>,
    Richard> Mike Mann <mike@kempston.demon.co.uk> writes

    >> In article <36d01f1f.2773795@news.demon.co.uk>,
    >> richard@spam.egglestn.demon.co.uk (Richard Eggleston) wrote:
    >> 
    >>> I was wondering, with the recent outbreak of Happy99 Do ISPs
    >>> scan EMail or postings for Trojans and Virii,
    >>  No.

    Richard> actually, Freeserve does check for happy99 in both news
    Richard> and mail and rejects such messages

Happy.exe is easy to spot though - all of them reportedly have the
header `X-Spanska:'. I suspect other trojans are considerably
harder.....

Stefan

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