Re: [Exim] What do you do when you recieve a virus?

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Author: Steve Lamb
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To: 'exim-users@exim.org'
Subject: Re: [Exim] What do you do when you recieve a virus?
Asbjorn Hoiland Aarrestad wrote:
> I've gotten (myself and others) plenty of messages claiming that I've
> send somebody a virus, and that my computer is infected, and i know
> nothing about the domain sending me this message. This is why I posted
> this question.....


     That is because they are doing the bad option 3 which is:
Accept mail, scan mail, inform "infected party" when virus is found.


     The first step being, of course, that they accepted the mail.  If they
had simply rejected the mail you would not have gotten the notice.


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