Latest Worm

David Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org
Fri Sep 19 09:39:11 PDT 2003


>Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:34:35 -0700
>From: Danny Howard <dannyman at toldme.com>
>To: David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org>
>Cc: baylisa at baylisa.org, rjwitte at rjwitte.com
>Subject: Latest Worm

>Unless your users WANT to receive .exe files.  Then plugging in a virus
>scanner like Sophos would be more appropriate.

Actually, I think I'd just as soon have a general "banned regex"
facility.

My users, both here at home and at BayLISA, have no need to receive
executables (as such) via email.

>* changing Subject line after parsing Wolfskill's message as SPAM.

I guess that's easier than changing the parser, eh?  :-}

Peace,
david
-- 
David H. Wolfskill				david at catwhisker.org
If you want true virus-protection for your PC, install a non-Microsoft OS
on it.  Plausible candidates include FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and
Solaris (in alphabetical order).



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