post-delivery virus scan

[Brad Koehn]

Turns out the technical part of your reasoning is correct: MUAs that have downloaded the message don’t get any updates, and hold onto the infected message. No legal ramifications here; it’s my personal server, and it’s in the US. Strange to think that deleting the content of a message would somehow be worse than deleting the content and the headers.  


> On Nov 10, 2016, at 6:47 AM, Frank Elsner <frank at moltke28.b.shuttle.de> wrote:
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> On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 15:36:33 -0600 Brad Koehn wrote:
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>  [ ... ]
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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
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> 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.
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> Just my 0.02 €, Frank