Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:07:28 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Jae Carlson" <j.carlson@snet.net>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bad e-mail addiess Message-ID: <014f01c1778f$eb5c7be0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <008501c1776c$3b364430$010aa8c0@my.net>
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I have a simpler solution: I've just set up my e-mail client to route all messages above 15 KB in size to a special folder, where I can examine them later. The very vast majority of legitimate e-mails are small and contain only text, and easily escape this filter, whereas e-mails with dangerous attachments are trapped by it. Periodically I look at the folder, and if I see a message that looks suspicious, I examine the raw message content before opening it, to see what it contains (on Outlook Express, you can right-click, then Properties, then Details, then Message source to see the actual content of the message without officially opening it--this does not execute anything the message might contain). There's no point in filtering specific senders because very often they are not aware that they have a virus sending e-mails on their behalf, and in any case, it often sends a virus to a given recipient just once. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jae Carlson" <j.carlson@snet.net> To: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 18:52 Subject: Bad e-mail addiess > warning if you get mail from these people do not open contains viruses > > _philippe.rambour@pixelsystems.fr > "_hcch314"@cse.unsw.edu.au > _azdolls@earthlink.net > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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