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Originally Posted by Toreador
Bouncing I can understand. But what's the problem with removing the virus-bearing attachments?
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Basically, because if an email is infected with a virus, it is extremely likely that the email was fabricated entirely by the virus engine, and therefore has no useful content. In fact, a virus scanner should be able to tell whether this is the case by knowledge of the various virus types etc. Therefore stripping out attachments and delivering the email merely turns virus emails into spam emails.
I believe the discussion was also complaining about the way that virus scanners use "cleaned" emails as a way of advertising their particular anti-virus product.