On 2013-10-31, Gunner Asch wrote:
On 31 Oct 2013 02:45:16 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
wrote:
On 2013-10-30, Gunner Asch wrote:
[ ... ]
---
This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active.
http://www.avast.com
*Maybe* -- if that was truly added by avast (not forged) -- and
if the e-mail was not modified by some other system it passed through on
the way to me. :-) I would really only *trust* a virus scan done on
receipt by my own system (if I ran systems where I cared about Virus
likelyhood. :-)
Enjoy,
DoN.
I run Avast, AVG and another that I cant remember the name of..in the
background along with Spy-bot to kill malware and tracking. It slows
the computer down just a smidge..but Im not gaming on this machine and
I go lots of interesting places and download lots of Epub files...so
the combination has been quite useful
Not intended as a distrust of *you* -- just that I understand
how many ways an e-mail can be corrupted before it reaches me.
It is good to protect from *incoming* problems. but as an
assurance that the *outgoing* e-mail is still virus-free by the time it
gets to me -- that is a different game. :-) I usually get a chuckle out
of e-mails that I get which claim to be safe because of checking at the
sending side. It always could have been infected on the way through the
net to my system -- or it could have been forged by someone else
(including your "From: " and most of the other headers.
About the only time I might accept that as valid is if it used
cryptographic signatures on the whole e-mail body, and also signed
(cryptgraphically) as from someone who I trusted -- and who I trusted to
not get his system infected. :-) As far as I can see, avast does not
have provisions for cryptographic signatures to assure that the body of
the e-mail (or usenet posting) is unaltered.
Enjoy,
DoN.
--
Remove oil spill source from e-mail
Email: | (KV4PH) Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564
(too) near Washington D.C. |
http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html
--- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero ---