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Thread ID: 105996 2009-12-21 11:07:00 Am I right in thinking Gmail does a virus check on ALL attatchments? ssssss (2100) Press F1
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841982 2009-12-23 10:48:00 Do Gmail and all other mail providers do this?
Then Microsoft Security Essentials does it again before opening the attatchment doesn't it?
So one should be safe opening incoming attatchments.


Hi all, I am a new member of forum. Would a newcomer be warmly welcome here? Good day you guys!!!
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sharonk868 (15523)
841983 2009-12-23 11:43:00 Hi all, I am a new member of forum. Would a newcomer be warmly welcome here? Good day you guys!!!
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ssssss (2100)
841984 2009-12-24 04:46:00 Try relabeling the .zip to .old then send it, get your mate to change it back to .zip once he has it on his computer, don't know if this will work now but it used to in the past.

Yep that works, thats how I send pretty much every zip file now. I use gmail through thunderbird as well doing that no problems
hueybot3000 (3646)
841985 2009-12-24 05:47:00 I am sorry I 'welcomed' Sharonk868 in my last post.

I didn't realize it was a spam attack!
ssssss (2100)
841986 2009-12-24 05:50:00 Don't worry about it sssss have a great Nelson Christmas gary67 (56)
841987 2009-12-24 05:52:00 Thanks gary67.

Hope you enjoy your tramping/caving
ssssss (2100)
841988 2009-12-24 05:53:00 I don't know that any mail provider does a virus or trojan check on attachments. Gmail and others attempt to filter spam though and some are better than others in that regard.

A decent virus checker should stop virus when you attempt to open the attachment but maybe not.

So don't opem attachments willy-nilly and scan them first.

Of course ISPs scan attachments, would be a bit pointless otherwise as that is where most email viruses reside.
Safari (3993)
841989 2009-12-24 06:16:00 Untangle is *amazing* for it's transparent scanning ... ISP's should just whack up something like that to tag email transparently. Seriously, no configuration, it's absolutely marvellous!!!

Thus far in the deployment that I did a week or so ago, there's not been one single false detection yet!
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