Taavi Talvik wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:
>
> > > Yes, it was real virus and quite nasty one. Which remainds us,
> > > that quite soon we cannot live without freebsd naitive virus
> > > scanning engine. Such things don't spread so easily, when ISPs
> > > are able to scan e-mail and other content they serve.
>
> > lol. The only way you could really have a virus in freebsd is if it was
> > launched or infected as root. Otherwise the virus would be VERY limited.
> > If you are talking about scanning incoming email for viruses/scripts that
> > were destined for Windows computers, ok, I'd say that's not a bad idea.
>
> Yes, I was talking about virus scanning on behalf of Windows users.
> Anyway, most files, emails, web pages are served or pass through
> unix (and quite often *BSD) systems. There seems to be program
> called AMAVIS (http://satan.oih.rwth-aachen.de/AMaViS/amavis.html), which
> can do some scanning. It probably needs some investigation and
> freebsd porting.
BTDT. Grab procmail out of ports, and wander along to
ftp://ftp.rubyriver.com/pub/jhardin/antispam/procmail-security.html for some
pre-canned recipies that will block e-mails with this infection.
Worked perfectly here.
Matthew
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