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Subject: Re: Does MSU anti-virus cover e-mail from msu.edu users
From: "m. kolb" <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:52:31 -0500
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Cheryl A Akers <[log in to unmask]> writes:

> I'm sorry.  I know this has been answered before but I don't remember the
> answer.  Does the MSU e-mail anti-virus check cover e-mail originating from
> msu.edu accounts?

Yes.
and no.

But before I get to that, it is important to note that we had a
problem with our virus scanning software, which in effect did not
catch the MyDoom.2-M on the vast majority of the e-mail front ends
until just a few minutes ago.  At the current rate, we will block well
over one million of these virii today.

But back to your original question; yes the virus check is run against
*all* e-mail sent via SMTP regardless of sender, recipient, etc.
The "no" part of the answer is that webmail does not use SMTP.  This
means that if a user sends a message via webmail, it is not scanned.
We are looking into solutions for dealing with this problem.

./matt

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m. kolb  <[log in to unmask]>

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