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Date:      Thu, 4 May 2000 15:56:28 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net>
To:        Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com>
Cc:        John Quincy <jquincy@mail.burlco.lib.nj.us>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Blocking mesages by Subject: using sendmail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.4.05.10005041429450.10890-100000@earth.wnm.net>
In-Reply-To: <3911CB07.14EC7BFB@wmptl.com>

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On Thu, 4 May 2000, Nathan Vidican wrote:

> That url returns a 404?
> 
It does.

> John Quincy wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 4 May 2000, Nathan Vidican wrote:
> > 
> > > We're using a FreeBSD box for our mail server, and Outlook 2000 as our
> > > client. We just received the message 'ILOVEYOU' from this list, I
> > > deleted and did not open it, (to be honest...windows scares me cause' I
> > > never know what it's doing/not doing).
> > >       Just curious, but would it not be possible to block sendmail from
> > > accepting any messages with the word "ILOVEYOU" in the subject?
> > 
> > http://www.cetis.hvu.nl/~koos/iloveyouhack.txt gives a clue....
> > 
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> 
I use John Hardin's procmail html-trap filter. It's effective. I've posted
specific instructions for dealing with ILOVEYOU using this filter at 
http://www.bookofirc.com/iloveyou/  (this will probably be only a
temporary location) - there is much more general information, as well as
other useful tools on John Hardin's own site
(http://www.wolfenet.com/~jhardin/).

By the way, I estimate the percentage of users receiving it here (before 
I brought the filter out ye olde t00lz closet) as over 2% (some received
it multiple times), which is a helluva lot when you take the snowball
effect into account and know it's going to get worse before it gets
better.

hth

-ac

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