Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:13:05 -0500 From: Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@keyslapper.org> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bad e-mail addiess Message-ID: <20011127221305.GP36710@keyslapper.org> In-Reply-To: <014f01c1778f$eb5c7be0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <008501c1776c$3b364430$010aa8c0@my.net> <014f01c1778f$eb5c7be0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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--tjOMJDssiV0CZSJH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11/27/01 11:07 PM, Anthony Atkielski sat at the `puter and typed: > 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 contai= n only > text, and easily escape this filter, whereas e-mails with dangerous attac= hments > are trapped by it. Periodically I look at the folder, and if I see a mes= sage > that looks suspicious, I examine the raw message content before opening i= t, to > see what it contains (on Outlook Express, you can right-click, then Prope= rties, > 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). >=20 > There's no point in filtering specific senders because very often they ar= e 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. Or better yet, use procmail. I posted an effective recipe in another thread on this list just today. The recipe was posted by someone else on the procmail list earlier today. I haven't seen a single infected message and haven't had a single valid message tossed since I installed it. L --=20 Louis LeBlanc leblanc@keyslapper.org Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org =D4=BF=D4=AC When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. -- Albert Einstein --tjOMJDssiV0CZSJH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8BA/xeAPWYrNkRWIRApBFAJ9JCYms2eLYjl3/ON4Zrrg6X3bwvACfdkW9 4lVnatW2eAdMQJEzXiyYBck= =74UG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tjOMJDssiV0CZSJH-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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