Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 09:25:46 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@inpharmatica.co.uk> To: Taavi Talvik <taavi@uninet.ee> Cc: Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Lloyd Rennie <lloyd@vbc.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ILOVEYOU Message-ID: <3912939A.9EEC1879@inpharmatica.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.1000504205419.26609A-100000@ns.uninet.ee>
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Taavi Talvik wrote: > > On Thu, 4 May 2000, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > > > Yes, it was real virus and quite nasty one. Which remainds us, > > > that quite soon we cannot live without freebsd naitive virus > > > scanning engine. Such things don't spread so easily, when ISPs > > > are able to scan e-mail and other content they serve. > > > lol. The only way you could really have a virus in freebsd is if it was > > launched or infected as root. Otherwise the virus would be VERY limited. > > If you are talking about scanning incoming email for viruses/scripts that > > were destined for Windows computers, ok, I'd say that's not a bad idea. > > Yes, I was talking about virus scanning on behalf of Windows users. > Anyway, most files, emails, web pages are served or pass through > unix (and quite often *BSD) systems. There seems to be program > called AMAVIS (http://satan.oih.rwth-aachen.de/AMaViS/amavis.html), which > can do some scanning. It probably needs some investigation and > freebsd porting. BTDT. Grab procmail out of ports, and wander along to ftp://ftp.rubyriver.com/pub/jhardin/antispam/procmail-security.html for some pre-canned recipies that will block e-mails with this infection. Worked perfectly here. Matthew -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate non iam adesse. Dr. Matthew Seaman, Inpharmatica Ltd, 60 Charlotte St, London, W1P 2AX Tel: +44 171 631 4644 x229 Fax: +44 171 631 4844 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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