[sword-devel] virus

[Leon Brooks]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 12:10, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> Don't ever open attachments.

Or use Linux or Mac OS X, and open them without a care. (-:

> My guess is that the world is gonna 
> have to start signing emails soon.

There are still several less draconian ways of savagely reducing spam 
and viruses which are not in widespread use.

For example, the recieving mail server can go through the motions of 
replying to the email and then bail out at the point of sending the 
message body. This would eliminate most kinds of spam relays and more 
than half of the forged virus mail all by itself.

An even simpler method is to have your email server discard or 
quarantine any executable attachment. If you *must* send an executable, 
wrap it in something else and include instructions for unwrapping it.

Cheers; Leon
(who gets about a dozen bounces a day from viruses he didn't send)