AKICOLJ

[desperance]

I know my awareness of current anti-virus strategies is stunted, on account of the whole Linux thing, but I've just seen a set of submission guidelines that baffles me. The call is f or electronic submissions, as attachments, in .doc or .rtf formats - but "Submissions without virus protection will not be opened and read so please ensure your virus protection is up to date."

I don't actually know what that means. They can't be asking for active virus protection to be embedded within the attachment, because (as far as I know) you can't do that in .rtf format, and I would assume not in .doc either.

If they just want an assurance that whatever you send has been scanned for viruses by up-to-date software, then that is surely something they need to do at their end, because lesson one is not to trust what other people tell you.

Or does my complacent lack-of-anxiety about this whole area mean that I've missed a major new development in anti-viral strategy, and is everybody soon going to be demanding a level of cover that I'm simply not aware of...?

In other news, snowpocalypse: we can has. Whole inches of it. I'm thinking of taking the boys out into the yard with a camera, just to see what they make of it.

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[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

I'm responsible for the web end of the CWA's Debut Dagger Competition and the rules include Any entrant who submits a file or e-mail containing a virus will be immediately disqualified and will forfeit their entry fee. which seems to me to be the sensible way of dealing with this issue. A virus scan of all the entries received to date only took a few seconds and drew a blank.