On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Eric Thomas wrote:

> >         Personaly, I don't see it as very much use, but I'm not involved
> > at all with it.  The idea is that by putting a message like that on the
> > end of the message, people feel confident that they are not being infected
> > by the ``site in question''.
>
> The thing though is that a malicious user can add the "virus scan done"
> message and make it look like the message was scanned when it was not.
> In other words, this only provides a dangerous sense of false security. It
> trains users to feel confident about messages which bear this little note,
> when in reality there is no guarantee that it was inserted by a virus scanner.

        I agree entirely, I supose I didn't really think about that
actually being something that could be used for malicious purposes.  Thank
you for clarifying this potential problem with it.  *I* would not trust it
myself, but I'm probably far LESS trusting than your average user.

                                                        Jessica

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