Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:59:17 -0400 From: William Dudley <wfdudley@gmail.com> To: Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> Cc: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu>, krad <kraduk@gmail.com>, Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th>, questions@freebsd.org, Wayne Sierke <ws@au.dyndns.ws> Subject: Re: [Phishing]Re: Anti-virus for FreeBSD Message-ID: <CAFsnNZLF=Uoa5XbRcJk1aaSt8WJ9zzuYi1cKkS7Ycz7r7m1gGw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.20.1603231224140.8892@sas1.nber.org> References: <wu7vb4fm8ji.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <CALfReyeHNrqZsCd_-3gMb%2B5RDEnW8aK2QfYCDRSBG%2B3bN5tpsQ@mail.gmail.com> <1458712914.1578.37.camel@au.dyndns.ws> <62985.128.135.52.6.1458748953.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <alpine.LRH.2.20.1603231224140.8892@sas1.nber.org>
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demime will remove attachments. I don't know if it can be configured to remove only certain kinds. Bill Dudley This email is free of malware because I run Linux. On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 Mar 2016, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > >> Partly to toss some more fuel into the fire ;-) and partly to discourage >> too harsh judgement of "some anti-vurus software not catching some >> viruses" (or should I say virii as a plural of Latin word virus?) >> >> First of all, the whole anti-virus approach is fundamentally flawed. In >> fact, you can not enumerate bad (what anti-virus is trying to do). You >> only can enumerate good and prohibit everything else. So, don't be too >> harsh on those [anti-viruses] that miss some of evil things sometimes: >> remember, they are trying to do the task that is fundamentally flawed. >> >> > Is there a package out there that would block all email messages with > binary executable content? I understand that pdf and word files may contain > executable code - the package would have to be able to distinguish such > files with executable code and those without. (Is that possible)? > > For us, that would be a satisfactory substitute for Kaspersky, perhaps > even a superior one. > > daniel feenberg > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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