Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 19:22:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sweet news 8) Message-ID: <199903301922.MAA19972@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199903270307.TAA01299@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Mar 26, 99 07:07:56 pm
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> "Major e-mail virus " hits corporate hard . The article reports that in one > company > 60,000 machines were affected . > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2233030,00.html > > Perhaps some of the security oriented FreeBSD companies can capitalize on the > good news!! "FreeBSD can protect you from the Melissa virus" (despite the fact that it's techniocally a bacterium. ontologically speaking...). Here is a Melissa "patch" for sendmail .mc files (from sendmail.com): --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCAL_RULESETS # Kludgey Melissa virus checking routine. # Just need enough of a pattern to match. # Instructional note: # The format for the rule is # RExactly the thing you want to quote # No quote marks, no tabs, absolutely nothing in # parentheses (like this, they're considered comments # and will be removed before they get to the rules). # After the exact thing, then a tab, and the $#error. # Note, the $* matches anything, so it's useful for # wildcarding. This also scans all messages with # Subject: headers and invokes a rule, so there is # a performance hit. HSubject: $>Check_Subject D{MPat}Important Message From D{MMsg}This message may contain the Melissa virus. SCheck_Subject R${MPat} $* $#error $: 553 ${MMsg} RRe: ${MPat} $* $#error $: 553 ${MMsg} --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make sure you replace the spaces between "$*" and "$#" with a single tab. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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