On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 22:12, Philipp Grosswiler wrote: > Now I read a news article on heise.de, that F-Secure calls those e-mails > under the name of Sober.H. I would like that ClamAV could also add those > signatures to the database, as there seem to be a lot of victims out there > being infected by Sober.G, which can reload all kind of executable to do > with the victim whatever he wants... Now it looks like the Sober author is > kind of rassist and I do not tolerate that. >
According to the google translation of the page it looks like the signature actually detects the new varient of Sober which sends the emails, rather than the emails themselves. > What can I do to help you stop this kind of e-mails? Or is your policy to > not do anything against this, since it's not really harmful (means no direct > virus or worm)? Lots of viruses are now used for bulk emailing of spam by compromised machines, this only appears different because of the nature of the content (theres plenty of other objectionable content in spam) and the fact its in German. In any event the filtering of objectionable and unsolicited content is a job for your anti-spam solution of choice. BMRB International http://www.bmrb.co.uk +44 (0)20 8566 5000 _________________________________________________________________ This message (and any attachment) is intended only for the recipient and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you have received this in error, please contact the sender and delete this message immediately. Disclosure, copying or other action taken in respect of this email or in reliance on it is prohibited. BMRB International Limited accepts no liability in relation to any personal emails, or content of any email which does not directly relate to our business. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
