Portal content virus checking

In our site configuration, connections even to Intranet web servers pass though a proxy server that is is charge of virus scanning each page/file server.
While adding more security on virus propagation, this configuration is a KILLER of portal performances.
I'm wondering why we should check each page and file sent to the users instead of certifying the portal content by checking the edit actions only. What I'm interested into is a way to qualify all the items stored in the portal (mainly in content areas), with less interest to html/javascript (almost all of this content is generated automatically by the portal, and anyway the rest -what is entered by a developer- is hard to be modified by a virus...).
Any suggestion for an implementation? Thanks

This problem is fixed in Release 2. There is no supported workaround in 3.0.

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