GMail Adds Virus Protection 355
AxsDeny writes "Google has rolled out virus protection for it's web based email service. Apparently they are scanning incoming and outgoing messages for infected messages. Read more on their "what's new" page."
Re:"it's"? (Score:2, Informative)
Or is it?
pretence P Pronunciation Key (prtns, pr-tns)
n. Chiefly British
Variant of pretense.
pretence
n 1: a false or unsupportable quality [syn: pretension, pretense] 2: an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them" [syn: guise, pretense, pretext] 3: pretending with intention to deceive [syn: pretense, feigning, dissembling] 4: imaginative intellectual play [syn: pretense, make-believe] 5: the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending" [syn: pretense, pretending, simulation, feigning]
(source: Dictionary.com)
*Sorry, I had trouble resisting after being beat down by the grammar Nazis my self. It's really just a regional thing here.
Re:"it's"? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:This could be a big issue (Score:5, Informative)
Re:No zips with binary files (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I'd love this... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:What? Can't they index virii? (Score:1, Informative)
"Virii" is a supid word made up by supid people, used by people that don't know any better.
Re:but what powers it? (Score:5, Informative)
Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.199]) by ###.###.### (8.13.5/8.13.5/Debian-3) with ESMTP id jB...5 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:06:00 -0600 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so21853nzc for ; Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:06:48 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-ve rsion:content-type;
b=DZ...SE/zJ0=
Received: by 10.37.12.24 with SMTP id p24mr1718713nzi;
Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:06:48 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.36.153.11 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:06:47 -0800 (PST)
In other words, it looks like they have a cluster of 30 email servers for just the outside representation, and then 2 more levels of multiple clustered mail servers on the 10.37 subnet and 10.36 subnet. Your mail bounces in google's net 3 TIMES before it ever hits the real world. Granted, my experience in setting this stuff up is limited to clustering 2 or 3 servers together, but IMHO something amazing is going on under GMail's hood.
Re:Grammar (Score:2, Informative)
Seems like there's a nice beat, but I'll have to wait till I get home from work to really crank it up.
Re:Final Straw! (Score:5, Informative)
The easy work-around for this is to just rename mypgm.exe to mypgm.renametoexe and then it goes through just fine (zipped or not). But if I'm sending it *TO* a gmail account, I don't even know it got dropped...
Re:Deja vu (Score:1, Informative)
Even without protections such as anti-virus software, spam blocking, etc, you're still not guaranteed to get every single email that's sent to you. Any mail admin could tell you that email is not a reliable, guaranteed delivery method. It's best effort.
Re:Final Straw! (Score:4, Informative)