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GMail Adds Virus Protection
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."
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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.
-Buddy of DoQ
Go to http://www.dictionary.com/ and look up "pretence" and you will see that is valid. Are you a Brit by any chance? I'm asking because Brits prefer quaint, Frenchified spellings like "colour" and "pretense".
A lot of filters drop anything encrypted, for that reason.
just change the extension to something other than zip and it goes through fine. In fact you can probably make it .gz or some other extension that winzip and clones understand and it should work (unless the javascript catcher is more adavanced then I think it is).
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
You don't need to worry about that. I've noticed from the notifications from OpenOffice's mailing list that Gmail bounces any attachments it doesn't like without telling you. You won't get pissed off because you'll never know the email existed.
There is no god but Google and GTalk is the messenger of Google.
Repeat after me: viruses, V I R U S E S.
"Virii" is a supid word made up by supid people, used by people that don't know any better.
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.
For anyone else out there who has no clue what the parent is talking about, check out this site. http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/
Seems like there's a nice beat, but I'll have to wait till I get home from work to really crank it up.
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...
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
That's silly on so many levels, but I'll just pick on the most basic one!
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.
Rename the .zip file to .piz is my workaround.
$2B OR NOT $2B = $FF