post-delivery virus scan

Frank Elsner frank at moltke28.b.shuttle.de
Thu Nov 10 12:47:16 UTC 2016


On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 15:36:33 -0600 Brad Koehn wrote:

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> To help detect and remove the infected messages after they’ve been delivered to users’ mailboxes, I created a small script that iterates the INBOX and Junk mailbox directories, scans recent messages for viruses, and deletes them if found. The source of my script (run via cron) is here: https://gitlab.koehn.com/snippets/9

Bad idea. The user may already taken the action needed for infection. And what about legal aspects?
In my country (Germany), information suppression would be punishable.


Just my 0.02 €, Frank


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