RE: virus scanners....

[David Korn <dkorn at pixelpower dot com>]

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>From: Jonathan Larmour [mailto:jlarmour@redhat.com]
>Sent: 23 July 2001 12:07


>Enno Davids wrote:
>> 
>> Ordinarily I just quietly ask the one or two perpetrators, but clearly...
>> 
>> Can all you clowns configure your virus scanners to NOT spam 
>>the list when they find something....

  It's a sensible enough feature because the user sending the virus probably
doesn't know that they're infected, and needs to be told as soon as 
possible.  It's only in the context of a mailing list that it goes wrong.

>> And I wouldn't mind it if redhat could pull their
>> finger out and cut down on the spam entering the list in the 
>first place
>> either.... (Hey I find discarding email with attachments 
>works for me!)

  They do use ORBS and MAPS, IIRC, and there doesn't seem to be *very* much
spam.  The viagra salesthings aren't in the black hole yet but they will be
soon.  Perhaps the most useful thing the listmaster could do would be 
adding in an "Errors-To: <>" header, which ought to get most auto-generated
replies (virus warnings, out-of-office autoacks and mailbox full receipts).

>I think you'll find that those are legitimate list members who have been
>infected with a virus.

  Surely they are legitimate list members who have *not* been infected
with a virus because their scanners caught it?  

> And we can't easily screen it on MIME type because
>it was application/mixed which could be legitimate. Perhaps we should
>filter out all mail with "X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express" :-).

  Jifl, do you still need more coffee this morning?  I can't quite see how
this relates to any of the earlier sentences and I don't see how you could
expect to filter viruses by mime type anyway unless they come with an
application/x-virus header.  I filter viruses by just not running any .exes
that I might get from the list.

        DaveK
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>Subject: Re: virus scanners....
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>Jifl
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