Inadvertently sending someone a computer virus may damage your relationship
with them. So a Vancouver-based Internet provider has begun scanning its
clients’ outgoing messages for viruses as well as incoming ones. Cathy Munn,
president of the Electric Mail Company says the company automatically deletes
the infected files and sends messages alerting both sender and recipient to the
infection and deletion. The service has already caught 11 viruses in outgoing
mail from one client.
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