Thread: Virgin email - spying or nanny?
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Old 15-11-2009, 19:16   #82
Jon T
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Re: Virgin email - spying or nanny?
If your AV software scans(as most, if not all do) inside archive(zip, rar etc), then while your email is stored on Virgin's(or google's) server's then you really should expect them to be want to be able to scan every file that is stored.

For this, and other reasons, I am not allowed to store password protected archives on the work network, neither am I allowed to use Microsoft Office's password protection mechanisms.

At the end of the day, email's not much good for file transfer anyway, 20Mb is only enough for two decent quality/size photographs.

Sorry Gary but I think this is a pointless thread, it was biased from the start as you gave the options of spying or nannying both negative to Virgin Media, how about a third, consumer safety? What next, do you want them to remove the block on SMB ports(tcp 137-139) as it may be seen as nannying?
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