Re: The Internet worm 'Swen' rides again

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 09/30/05 

Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:34:23 -0400

From: "Bigbruva" <Richardh@dontusethis.ws>

| It is however unusual for a client AV scanner to detect NNTP traffic,
| usually this is only performed by gateway type scanners or firewall scanners
| (at least in my experience). I think Phil makes a very good point, that
| scanning for this should be provided as part of the ISPs newsgroup servers
| and not left up to the clients alone to filter.
|
| BB

Hardly likely. Can't even get my ISP to install AV software on their email server. 

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Dave
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