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Richard Clayton (richard@turnpike.com) wrote:
: In article <1999Feb23.020448.8683@emgee.demon.co.uk>, mike
: <mike@emgee.demon.co.uk> writes

: >Richard Clayton (richard@turnpike.com) wrote:
: >: In article <919637446.4188.2.nnrp-07.9e989747@news.demon.co.uk>, 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.
: >
: >: actually, Freeserve does check for happy99 in both news and mail and
: >: rejects such messages
: >
: >Why?

: I've no idea - I think that asking in one of their groups might be a
: better bet if you want an answer.

I suspect that it's easy to detect and one of their senior admins fancied
adding such detection to the MTA he has been associated with may be a likely
explanation.

: >: Demon will withdraw posting privileges from customers whose systems are
: >: known to be contaminated until they have arranged to clean it up.
: >
: >I realise this falls under the general heading of "anything we didn't think
: >off when we wrote the AUP is also not allowed" but wouldn't some sort of
: >announcement of this have been in order.

: We considered this, but the current level of infection is extremely low
: (it's numerically worse for demon.nl customers, despite them being only
: a small fraction of the demon.co.uk customers - go figure!).

Fair enough. The impression given elsewhere was that it was a more serious
problem. 

: > I've never heard it suggested
: >in the past that posting say word macro viruses was considered a serious
: >offence. 

: I cannot advise doing it. Outside of specialist groups where it might be
: considered on-topic, Demon would certainly take action.

There was the unstated assumption in my original question that such a posting
was inadvertant in the same way that one presumes most peoples propogation
of happy99 was inadvertant. I'd sort of assumed that posting a virus in
cicumstances where the intention was clearly stated to be to propogate it
to others was one of those things that would obviously be an AUP violation.

: You might also wish to consider the ramifications of the Computer Misuse
: Act before posting any virus intentionally.

Indeed. You may also wish to consider the legal ramifications before telling
this group whether or not you have stopped beating your wife.

However I fail to see what either of the above two paragraphs has to do with
my original posting. 


-- 
Mike Cavanagh.

http://i.am/purple