Re: Virus Scan Notices in eMail

[sen_ml () ECCOSYS COM (Sen_Ml Sen_Ml)]

From: Dan Schrader <Dan_Schrader () TRENDMICRO COM>
Subject: Re: Virus Scan Notices in eMail
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 12:28:49 -0700
Message-ID: <D129BBE1730AD2118A0300805FC1C2FE04C79B02 () 209-76-212-10 trendmicro com>

> Agreed
>
> This is a misuse of a feature some banks asked us to add to the software.
> They asked for a way to add a disclaimer to every outbound message so that
> they could make certain recipients new that the email was not an official
> approved statement from the corporation.  A few sites have started to use
> this feature as shown below.  Bad idea - no product can guarranttee 100%
> virus detection.

along these lines, it seems to me that in theory, the scanner could
digitally sign (say w/ openpgp signatures) the entire message once it
has scanned it (along w/ the results of scanning of course:
e.g. didn't find anything suspicious + timestamp).

i doubt there are many set-ups that would go for this as it would seem
to require key distribution and verification on the parts of the
participating parties for this to be effective and even then...a lot of
effort for return that might not be worthwhile.

there is also the concern of having missed something while scanning ;-)

my $.02