Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 21:48:07 +0100 From: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> To: Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org>, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> Cc: krad <kraduk@gmail.com>, Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th>, questions@freebsd.org, Wayne Sierke <ws@au.dyndns.ws> Subject: Re: [Phishing]Re: Anti-virus for FreeBSD Message-ID: <56F30107.7090301@bananmonarki.se> In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.20.1603231224140.8892@sas1.nber.org> References: <wu7vb4fm8ji.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <CALfReyeHNrqZsCd_-3gMb%2B5RDEnW8aK2QfYCDRSBG%2B3bN5tpsQ@mail.gmail.com> <1458712914.1578.37.camel@au.dyndns.ws> <62985.128.135.52.6.1458748953.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <alpine.LRH.2.20.1603231224140.8892@sas1.nber.org>
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On 2016-03-23 17:31, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 Mar 2016, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > >> >> Partly to toss some more fuel into the fire ;-) and partly to discourage >> too harsh judgement of "some anti-vurus software not catching some >> viruses" (or should I say virii as a plural of Latin word virus?) >> >> First of all, the whole anti-virus approach is fundamentally flawed. In >> fact, you can not enumerate bad (what anti-virus is trying to do). You >> only can enumerate good and prohibit everything else. So, don't be too >> harsh on those [anti-viruses] that miss some of evil things sometimes: >> remember, they are trying to do the task that is fundamentally flawed. >> > > Is there a package out there that would block all email messages with > binary executable content? I understand that pdf and word files may > contain executable code - the package would have to be able to > distinguish such files with executable code and those without. (Is > that possible)? > > For us, that would be a satisfactory substitute for Kaspersky, perhaps > even a superior one. > > daniel feenberg Yes. There was a port called messagewall, where one could block attachments and html and other nasty stuff. Not in the ports any more.
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