EMBARRASSING TO THE LIST: Re: *WARNING* Your Email Account Will Be Closed

[Mark Nernberg]

The problem is that this crap comes through the Cyrus lists all the time!

If it were once, I'd keep my mouth shut.

And, don't give me that TrendMicro/ClamAV crap -- quality attachment
filtering and simply disallowing attachments to the list would nip
that in the bud.

On 5/30/05, Andreas S. Kerber <ask at andreas.kerber.name> wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 11:44:24AM -0400, Mark Nernberg wrote:
> > Considering that Project Cyrus aims to produce "secure" software, the total
> > lack of even basic anti-virus screening on the listserve (or, if there is
> > screening, the total failure of it), reeks of laziness on the part of the
> > system operators.
> > As such, I now question the validity of the claims that Cyrus IMAPD and SASL
> > are relatively secure.  If the programmers are as lazy as the system
> > operators, then IMAPD and SASL must be full of holes.
> 
> Nonsense.
> 
> At the time of the arrival of those mails neither Trendmicro nor ClamAV
> recognized those virii, so keep you rant, thanks.
> 
> 
> 
>

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