Am 2004-01-27 15:26:49, schrieb François TOURDE: >Le 12444ième jour après Epoch, >Niko Efthymiou écrivait: > >> I have noticed 3 stange zip atachments on this mailing list, all >> recieved yesterday. I would suspect that it is some kind of virus >> (havent scanned it). >> >> Since there have been quite a few virus epidemies recently (and maling >> lists are a good place for spreding them), I would like to propose >> following alternatives: >> >> 1. Dissallow atachments alltogether on debian lists (send them to >> /dev/null) > >And what about legal attachements, like logs, config files, etc. ?
Why ? logs, configs and patches are plain/text and can send inline. >> 2. Allow only certein mime types in mutipart messages > >You're probably right, but who makes the choices? Need only pgp/gpg >> 3. Scan the emails for virii and if positive discard them (will >> probably eat up to many resources.) > >I think there is already a mechanism like amavis+clamav+spamassassin >on the list. Check your headers to confirm. My headers are already >modified by this piece of software on my side, so I can't check if the >list do that already. It is alread done... Because I have tried to send several time a .procmairc sniplet which filters VIRUSES and SPAM and the message does not apear in the Lists 8<O Greetings Michelle -- Registered Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/
