Oh, it's a mailer-virus...like spam? But a virus instead? On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, David Dawes wrote: > Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:27:15 -0400 > From: David Dawes <dawes@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [XFree86] What's the matter with the list... > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:19:18AM -0700, Lionel Lecoq wrote: > >In view of the number of firewalls complaints, it looks as if the list was spreading viruses > >cannot one do something against it? > > The list isn't spreading the viruses. All of the viruses sent here > are trapped before they make it to the list. The nature of this > virus is that it generates mail with fake From addresses, including > addressess of these lists. So with 'xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx' in the From: > line of these virus messages, the automatic replies from various > virus checking software are coming back here. Those replies are > themselves are a bigger problem to us, and I'm adjusting our filter > to catch more of them. > > David > -- > David Dawes > Founder/committer/developer The XFree86 Project > www.XFree86.org/~dawes > ------------------ -Jay Reg. Linux user #207147 Spambox: jayjwa@xxxxxxxxxxx PGP key: http://atr2.ath.cx/sig.txt Real box: certainlynotjayjwa+remove-you-know-what@xxxxxxxxxxx ATR2-WBS: Now home to a nessusd daemon vx: /projects/win-virus-kit-1.tar.bz2 hx: /projects/win-kit-1.tar.bz2 or /projects/lin-kit-1.tar.bz2 ------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
