Re: I HATE antivirus scanners

From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: 03/25/02 

To: Mike Lisanke <lisanke@us.ibm.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 17:03:18 -0500

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:33:18 EST, Mike Lisanke <lisanke@us.ibm.com> said:

> able see the 'source' that it was complaining about. I would like to
> understand why my server's anti-virus filter would
> react at all to anything besides a binary. I take it that the original was

Because some vendor's operating systems are very lax on what formats a virus
can be in - when even HTML and JPGs are considered executable binaries,
you need to scan those too for such malware as can be hidden in them.... 

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				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
				Virginia Tech