[lug] virus question

Kirk Rafferty kirk at rafferty.org
Fri May 5 09:18:21 MDT 2000


One of our NT admins placed a support call with M$ and asked this very
question.  Their answer: virus scanners and Outlook filters at the client.
There appears to be no way to filter incoming email at the Exchange end.

*boggle*

-k

On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 03:52:48PM -0600, Andrew Diederich wrote:
> Ok, here's a silly question.  So far today I've seen solutions on no less
> than two mail lists on how to filter out the I love you garbage on sendmail,
> plus a link to the sendmail.org site on how to do it on a third mail list
> (http://www2.sendmail.com/loveletter/), and a lengthy discussion with
> several solutions on the postfix list for the best way to filter this thing.
> 
> So the question: anyone know how to do it on exchange?  You'd figure since
> exchange probably has the highest percentage of outlook clients someone has
> come up with a way to do it . . .  I even just checked some popular exchange
> sites -- msexchange.org, ntfaq.com, slipstick.com, exchangefaq.org (runs
> php) . . .
> 
> Ah, well.  
> 
> --
> Andrew
> 
> 
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