Speaking of Windows and *.vbs attacks. What you should really do is disable
the scripting host on all of your Windows machines. For those of you who
don't know, you can just rename "wscript.exe" "jscript.exe" and
"cscript.exe". There's a good chance you'll only have one of them.
>From: Bradley M Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Mario Zuppini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: Matthew Sherborne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Anti Virus for Debian
>Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 23:35:01 -0500
>
>On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:59:20PM +1000, Mario Zuppini wrote:
> > I would also like to know of virus scanners especially for mail servers
>ie
> > sendmail
> > that will work on a SPARC ???
> >
> > there are a few that work under i386 ie like amavris etc can be found on
> > freshmeat.net
> > but nothing will work under a sparc
>
>As a quick and dirty option, you can use procmail to filter. Depending on
>your security posture and thread environment, you can filter on
>multi-extension vbs files (e.g. AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs), all VBS files, exe
>files, or any combination. You could filter them to a quarantine area, then
>peruse them at your leisure.
>
>You should combine this with turning off auto execute of attachments on all
>of your windows boxen.
>
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>--Brad
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