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I think that Pilot should be scanning for viruses, that users would welcome it, and that this worry about the AUP is misplaced. All the system has to do is to bounce an infected message back to the sender. There's no need to keep a copy of it here, to notify an administrator, or anything like that that would involve any person here seeing the content of a message. At most there could be a log entry made that a certain message was bounced back, without any record of its content. If you feel strongly about it, the system could also send a note to the recipient telling him/her that a message has been blocked. On the other hand, I have mixed feelings about how important this is. First of all, in my department at least, we have (finally) educated most of our users to not blindly open attachments, so the greatest threat is behind us. The time for this to have been done was really about three years ago. Second, I have always felt that anti-virus software can give users a false sense of security. If they hear that their email is being scanned, it's all too easy for them to conclude that they are now fully protected and that they don't have to be careful any more. I have seen any number of computers with anti-virus software become infected, because the user did something foolish and the virus was too new to be detected. Educating users and modifying their behavior is the best way to prevent viruses. --Chris ============================================== Chris Wolf Computer Service Manager Agricultural Economics [log in to unmask] Michigan State University 517 353-5017