On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
This argument is convincing - IF you are doing AV-scanning. We don't,
and never will. It is too expensive, both CPU wise (as you correctly
point out) and because to have a decent pattern database you have to pay
a commercial anti-virus vendor.
The ClamAV database is better than some commercial providers'.
We take the much simpler route of not allowing executable content in
email. Period.
It also includes signatures for phishing attacks and zipped payloads,
which your policy won't handle.
Tony.
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