Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] NAV detected a virus in a document you authored

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Malcolm V was once rumoured to have said:
>   My question is, are programs that send these messages merely products
> of cheap and nasty programming, or cynical marketing exercises, spraying
> their product name across the internet (ie: spam)?
> 
>   The email virus scanner used at work only sends notifications to
> people on our network (be they sender or recipient), although I'm
> thinking of reworking it so it sends messages externally if the virus is
> a known non-mangler. 

The messages serve a valid purpose when people have the tendancy of sending 
other files with virii in them, such as word documents containing Word Macro
Viruses - such viruses don't mangle addresses.

Actually, you'd probably want to do it the other way around: supress email
for known manglers since there are more non-manglers than manglers about.

C.
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