[Esd-l] Something new

[Paul Thomas]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Chris Payne wrote:

> If you redirections quarantined files to $HOME/  you void all 
> reasons to poison files.  We poison files not on behalf of
> the sender, on behalf of our users because they run any/all 
> attachments that they receive.

not in a shell directory. these virus/worms are microsoft-centric

i replied to the following:

>> > > attachments and place them in a user configurable place while

> SECURITY_QUARANTINE="/var/spool/mail/quarantine/" 
> directory is my personal choice.

good choice, but i don't quite get the difference as the recipient
still would have the option to retrieve the virus/worm. 

--paul

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