Re: FW: Virus alert

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Can't we just hack the mailman configs to dump mails with X-sender value
of outlook or outlook express?  That would solve the problem, no;)

Scott



On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 19:30:44 CDT, David Frascone <dave@frascone.com>  said:
>
> > 'course, I probably get 25 e-mails a day telling me that I sent someone
> > Sobig, which would be pretty impressive, since I run Suse :)
>
> I should be so lucky.  I'm averaging almost that many AV-scanner alerts bouncing
> to me an *hour*.  And inbound Sobig-F are above 1 per minute.
>
> I still say we should have put this in the "security considerations" in RFC1341:
>
> "If you think you know how to secure active objects in e-mail, you are
> probably very mistaken.  There be serious and nasty dragons here."
>
> (with apologies to the authors of 'xterm').
>
> On the other hand, maybe we didn't do THAT badly - I can only think of one
> vendor that really didn't pay attention....
>
>

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