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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:25:09 -0400 "Wizard" <wizard at neonedge.com> wrote: > Yeah, I had some initial concerns regarding the admin review, but they > assured me that it would be mainly just power users from each > department doing the reviews, and primarily they would be only > responding to requests like "where's my such-and-such attachment", so > it sounds relatively safe. They got hit pretty hard by the Love* > virii, and with this recent worm making it inside their firewall with > all of the associated ports blocked, they are trying to plug up all > the holes. If they still find problems, they may start locking down > workstations, which they are trying to avoid. Many companies are very aggressive about installing anti-virus software on their mail servers as well as requiring users to have it installed on their workstations. But, attachment stripping virtually guarantees that no worms will be propagated to their users at the risk of losing some email content. - -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/P7EA+wA+1cUGHqkRAgHYAJ4sFs7rkctXbHvzwMaGgE3PpU2JQQCdFzqi ag5BpI9AsEayBxDbw8c9mD8= =dk2v -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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