[Avcheck] avcache announcement

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 06:37:03PM +0100, Felix von Leitner wrote:

> With this line of argument, we don't need anti viruses at all.
> There are always ways to circumvent them.
> In fact, that is exactly my opinion about virus scanners.

:)
 
> At any rate, a performance enhancement like http://www.fefe.de/avcache/
> may _never_ decrease security, no matter how slight the decrease.  That
> is basic engineering, there can be no discussion about this.

My point exactly. But in that case the body MUST be saved.

> A guy told me yesterday that Outlook will even accept malware in the
> HEADER of an email (i.e. Subject: duh begin 655 virus.exe<CR>...).
> Is that true?  If so, avcache needs to be smarter than it currently is.

AAAARGH. See Michael, our speculations were true.

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