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On Thursday 25 April 2002 14:19, you wrote:
Viruses are one of the reasons I changed my email address, I now have a virus scanned, spam filtered email account. The virus definitions are updated every 10 mins, and any virused emails are quaranteened.
You still have a race condition, where the gap between a virus being written and the antidote reaching you is your vulnerable time. Even with stochastic or weak AI inspection of the attachments, the solution doesn't garantee safety. I think well-engineered solutions garantee their success against credible threats. -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.