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List:       firewalls-gc
Subject:    RE: Re: Virus Scanner
From:       Jerry Huyghe <jerry () eliashim ! com>
Date:       1997-07-28 13:00:55
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All right, if you are speaking from purely scientific and logical grounds,
I agree 100% with what you have said. 

I simply was expressing a gut feeling. Obviously, I would not trust an
encrypted download either, and I would still scan it. However, I would
trust it more than a non-encrypted download from an unknown source.

Enough said, I'm getting dizzy. :-)

-jerry



At 12:24 PM 7/28/97 -0400, Paul Ferguson wrote:

>At 11:56 AM 07/28/97 -0400, Jerry Huyghe wrote:
>
>>
>>All I am saying is that people who use encryption are more likely to be:
>>1) known and trusted
>
>Again, encrypted transactions with a 'known and trusted' peer does not
>reduce the likelihood that the encrypted data may be infected with a
>virus. Gratuitous assertions may be just as gratuitously proven to be
>false in the absence of statistical data.
>
>>2) using data security methods which include good virus protection on their
>>own system.
>>
>
>These are two unrelated issues -- one should not assume that because a user
>has the means to encrypt their data that they also practice safe hex, at
>least insofar as computer viruses are concerned. This is a fundamental
>aspect of a security mentality.
>
>>As far as encrypted downloads, sites which use these are more likely to be
>>concerned about data security, and probably use a virus scanner.
>>
>
>I agree with the former portion of this statement, but the presence of
>encryption does not preclude ignorance or apathy with regards to viruses.
>Relating these two is a flawed logical correlation.
>
>Cheers,
>
>- paul
>
>
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