Re: Using Notes for User Authentication

> Unrelated: Can you configure your virus scanner
> *not* to add its somewhat "annoying" tagline to
> the message subject line? ;-)

No! I myself hate this line. It is a bit of "he we're doing virus 
scanning"! "But --- we do not know if it was useful...!".

From security standpoint it is more than only useless: it fools people. 
They think there is no thinking necessary anymore. Just open that 
attachment (even if it has an *.exe-extension). It was virus checked!

But the "security experts" at our company are really pride having this 
half-witted sentence behind every subject of every mail with an 
attachment. They are really pride of telling the world about not knowing 
if virus scanning had been effective!

In my opinion such a sentence should only appear if you can absolutely 
100% sure your virus scans are effective. If you are not that sure, and 
only dreamers and moonwalkers can be, don't make any noise about virus 
scanning at all --- except you've found one.

Another point they are missing: no mail system has to fiddle with subject 
lines. It is bad behaviour.

-- 
Thomas