Re: I HATE antivirus scanners

From: Valdis.Kletnieksat_private
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 14:03:18 PST

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On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:33:18 EST, Mike Lisanke <lisankeat_private>  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

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