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Re: (Fwd) RE: problem (Thread:31169)

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <eu.lue at gmx.de> Jan 29, 2003
• 436 views

Hi Kat, you wrote:

> Well, this is amusing.
>
> The "15 emails test" was designed to be run only on computers running their
> security products or no security products at all. According to this email, if
> you run any other security product, the tests tell you nothing.

Well, that's what Mr. Mallia writes. Although I'm not an security expert,
it looks to me, that in this strict sense, it doesn't seem to be right.
For instance, if you are receiving an e-mail with the eicar anti-virus
test file attached, this is a test for *any* anti-virus program
<http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm>.

> In other words,
> since those us us who run Pegasus are at least partially protected, all bets
> are off. If you (like me) removed the vbs runtime files, roughly 1/2 the tests
> are useless because those emails *use vbs to install the worms*, which is
> NOT a real life situation. In any case, the pattern of the emails apparently
> is
> set to provide a nice pretty gui to alert their registered customers that they
> are "protected" by doing what should be done anyhow instead of buying
> more security product to do it for them.

*g*

I know another e-mail-check URL. It's from a respected IT journal, but
in German only.    <http://heise.de/ct/antivirus/emailcheck/>

> Kat
>
>
> ------- Forwarded message follows -------
> Subject:        	RE: problem (Thread:31169)
> Date sent:      	Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:54:12 +0100
> From:           	"GFI General support" <support at gfi.com>
> To:             	gertie at visionsix.com
>
> Thanks again.
>
> The tests on our site are intended to help customer using our product, GFI
> MailSecurity, to see if their email is properly protected against email
> threats.
> These tests are not for machine with out this product or just stand alone
> machine. If you try to use these tests with other products or none at all,
> they
> will not work.
>
> regards
>
> Alex Mallia
> Support department- support at gfi.com
>
> GFI Software Ltd
> Security & Messaging software for Windows 2000
> GFI: MailSecurity - FAXmaker - DownloadSecurity for ISA Server - LANguard
> Security Event Log Monitor www.gfi.com

Best regards,
   Juergen

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