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- kuya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3herald: digg's all about the title sometimes...
his title was Gmail AntiVirus = Sophos?
the title here was more eye catching i guess ... although they go to the same blog. - lart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2maggo's proof is at http://www.thebillygoatcurse.com/gmailresults.html
my proff is at http://www.thebillygoatcurse.com/gmailresults2.html and students.depaul.edu/~bengert/gmail.xls
my xls file has the file names for the files that I used. it's really ez to test for your self if you have some nasty files laying around. - SQUIDwarrior, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Awsome! Sophos makes great antivrius software. Been using it for years and have never been hit with a virus. Even managed to salvage some freinds' computers that got smacked around by some nasty bugs.
- kev26, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've already said this twice in comments on Digg. I know the salesman at Sophos that was involved with selling the product to Google.
- mlansing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13rd opinion is the same...
http://www.pcdoctor-guide.com/wordpress/?p=1852 - Jammerdelray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Gmail using norton antispam?!? I seriously doubt it.
- rm999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah i could use rar, but i shouldn't have to bypass security - i should be able to turn it off if i have my own virus scanner (or if i don't want to scan for viruses). I can understand the virus scan on uploaded files, but on downloading them?
- rm999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"GMail is using Norton's Antispam. http://www.brightmail.com/"
how do you know?
i hate gmail's antivirus scanner - it scans zip file i send to myself and takes too long. I have come to depend on gmail for quick e-mail, but it is starting to get slower and slower. - robmiller99, on 12/11/2008, -0/+1Thats actually pretty clever lol. Although alot of time on their hands there.
http://news-about-spyware.blogspot.com/ - sunimit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm wondering what Malware 5 & 8 are, because none of the antivirus detected them.
- Rice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'll just digg this because some guy took the time to try to find this out. More or less, digg it because it poses the question, "What is really powering GMail Anti-Virus?"
But yeah, give me more proof than his nice chart. - Fowl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Someone have a diferent idea?
- NotAPoet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I can understand the virus scan on uploaded files, but on downloading them?"
Maybe because other people could send you viruses. - motorbikematt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0BRILLIANT!
- Rice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"i hate gmail's antivirus scanner - it scans zip file i send to myself and takes too long. I have come to depend on gmail for quick e-mail, but it is starting to get slower and slower."
.rar? - FreyrVanir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think google should scan incoming/outgoing email and not let you turn it off. If you could turn it off most people would then it becomes unless to have it in the first place.
Incoming: Have a folder like the spam one called virus. Put all incoming email that have a virus into that folder instead of dropping it like they do now. Also strip any labels that are auto added to the email. So by default it only shows up in the virus folder. If you want to move it or add label you can later.
Outgoing: Don't allow emails with virus to go out to anybody unless it's another google email account, that does the above.
I think this is a good idea that google is doing over all, it just needs a few more things. - imagic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0and once again....is there ever a reason to keep things from the internet community
- McoreD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's pretty cool. It's like matching DNA.
- herald, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Hey Kevin. This story is a duplicate... and judging by your digg history, you dugg the original posting. How about giving a little credit to mlansing, who submitted the original story a couple of day ago.
http://digg.com/security/Gmail_AntiVirus_=_Sophos_ - Rice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And, Virus? What in the world is that?
Odd concept... Virus? Computers? I don't get it. - Zekaer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Kaspersky seems pretty good from those results.
- drgruney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's pretty spiffy.
- MikeCampo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well we won't obviously know 100% until Google says who, but Sophos is alright I guess.
- t35t0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Too bad Sophos is privately held
- zztooveen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0>and why would anyone spend the time to
>figure this out? alot of time on their hands
Ask the 450+ people that dugg this article. I dont think this person minds the immense traffic they must be receiving now. And besides, this was clever, not hard. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is interesting, but really dont care *who* is providing these services. Google cares about it. The lack proof is in my inbox.
next.
- digg - DigiRaven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0and why would anyone spend the time to figure this out? alot of time on their hands
- haochi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0you should put those two closer to each other.
- customgt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1hearld, just to let you know, the person who reposted this, is a friend of the original poster. mind your buisness.
- leonbev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, it's scary how many pieces of malware both Symantec and AVG missed. Aren't they the two most popular anti-virus scanners now?
- jasqwerty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@sunimit
They could really be anything someone didn't blatantly ripoff from some leaked/released source. From what I've seen anti-virus scanners rely on that fact that they can put out definitions of publicly floating stuff very fast, but their heuristics? Most, if not all, are still sorely lacking. - rlamoni, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0> i hate gmail's antivirus scanner - it scans zip file i send to myself and takes too
> long. I have come to depend on gmail for quick e-mail, but it is starting to get
> slower and slower.
If you save a draft of a message instead of sending it then g-mail allows you to submit .EXE files Zipped. You just cannot hit the send button. However, using the "Draft" feature is fine if you are just sending to yourself. - fikko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why won't Google build its own? It'll be an essential component of all stuff they make.
- captainjy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0GMail sux. I wouldn't with this slop on my worst enemy.
- crossers, on 07/22/2008, -0/+0as I'm using yahoo so I don't know what antivirus.
http://www.shpe-sac.org
http://www.ocflex.com/
http://www.trgovinca.org
http://www.chasr.org/ - reversial, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oops, didnt see sombody had already pointed this out. I need an edit comment button :(.
- reversial, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No compainies detected Malwares 5 or 8. How do they know they exist then? Hmmm....
- TheGSRGuy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0NOD32...far better than Sophos.
- mlansing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I'm not friends with that douchebag!
lol - herald, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0kuya: You're definitely right. No argument. I'm just saying that he obviously read the previous post (dugg it) then reposted the same link. It doesn't seem right not to mention that.
- xistboi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0They are using Brightmail for Spam and Antivirus (Now Symantec)
- spiderland, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Herald brings up a good point. This was posted already, and kevin greedy had it digged.
I encourage folks to digg the original article instead:
http://digg.com/security/Gmail_AntiVirus_=_Sophos_ - zonemen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0What about NOD32 (antivirus software)?
- lollerskates, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Great, now it'll be _that_ much easier to make viruses for Gmail. I hope you're happy, rogue internet detective.
GMail: Serious Business. - tamden, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0We use Sophos here and it is a pig (This is a recent development, it was not before) and their email scanner for exchange keeps locking up the server at odd hours. But then again I have yet to meet an AV product that I liked.
- rm999, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0oh antispam, i thought you said anti-virus. nevermind. I was surprised to see how many viruses some of these scanners (including sophos) miss.
- mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0They should use VBA32. From what I hear it's a real powerful app.
- dstart, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I'd like to see proof.
- dmron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Who gives a damn as long as it works.
- dtang, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0GMail is using Norton's Antispam. http://www.brightmail.com/
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