[RTC List] 60 Minutes story: The Internet is Infected

[M Welch]

Hi William. 

Just trying to figure out how many times your email got scanned for viruses. 
1. Your PC's AV program scans outgoing mail (probably)
2. Your host scans incoming mail.
3. Your host probably scans outgoing mail
4. Morse Media scans incoming mail
5. Morse Media scans outgoing mail
6. My host scans incoming mail
7. My host probably scans outgoing mail
8. My PC's AV program scans incoming mail

Add to this the possibility of some hardware solutions like personal routers in between doing some level of scan, and possibly even some providers for our hosts may sniff packets for viruses.

No wonder email viruses are such a rarity any more.

William Van Hefner wrote at 07:58 PM 3/30/2009:
 
>Having your e-mail scanned by the same company's virus
>definitions TWICE is not going to help much. If you use antivirus software
>from a different company than your ISP, you are much more likely to stop
>any virus that happens to get through your ISP's antivirus filters.
>
>FYI, we use a free antivirus scanner called CLAM AV on our own mail
>servers. We have not had a single virus make it through our filters in 7+
>years. We have trapped hundreds of them a day at the server level though.
>IMHO, this 60 Minutes piece was just hype to get ratings. Network "news"
>shows are really more entertainment than news these days.