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From group: list.yarn; on Mon, 21 Jul 1997 10:41:58 -0400
Concerning "Viruses in file attachments.";
~ > "Don't open any file attached to e-mail, from anyone, without first
~ > scanning the file using a good, current, anti-viral product."
~ > To follow his advice, should scanning be applied to the attachment
~ > before it is decoded from Mime, before the decoded attachment is
~ > unZIPped, or after it is unZIPped?
After it is unzipped but before it is run. You cannot
reliably (if at all) scan for viruses in coded and/or
compressed files.
~ > And can PC-Yarn be configured to do this?
It would surprise me if you could, but I have been surprised before.
Friar Broccoli
Robert Keith Elias (Quebec, Qc, Canada) Address: kelias@CLIC.NET
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