Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-26 Thread Michael C.
In linux.debian.user, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, once spamassassin learns the viruses, it'll detect it as spam. > This is extremely desirable: It gives you the opportunity to go romp > through headers and report them to the originating ISPs. > Idiot-hostile ISPs like NT

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:29:54 -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > If a host is also it's own MX, having the MX is not necissary (if it > was, I shouldn't have been able to recieve email for the last six > years). You also should *NOT* be pointing MX entries at random hosts, > even

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 11:20:14AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > If you have a permanently connected machine (as I do with an ADSL link), > the DNS MX record should point to that machine, with a backup (lower > priority) MX pointing somewhere else, su

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 12:10:19PM +0200, Martin Jungowski wrote: > Uh... I think you got that wrong. Isn't SMTP just for delivering/sending > mail? Receiving mail is either POP3 or IMAP but as far as I know, not > SMTP. How do you think mail gets to

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 12:43:56AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > This is driving me nuts, and certainly proves that Windows viruses can > be very harmful to Linux users, even if they can't replicate on Linux. > What do I need to take care of this (i.e.,

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-25 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:08:12AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:14:04AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > To reduce your downloads, it looks as if you can either use > > fetchmail's size limit (limit

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-25 Thread kmark
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:14:04AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > To reduce your downloads, it looks as if you can either use > fetchmail's size limit (limit keyword, but it doesn't delete the > message unless you use the somewhat dangerous flu

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-24 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:14:04AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > I have been getting over 100 of these stupid MS virus emails a day. > > Some are the "install this patch from MS" variety, while some are > > embedded in returns of mail I didn'

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-24 Thread kmark
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Ross Boylan wrote: > I have been getting over 100 of these stupid MS virus emails a day. > Some are the "install this patch from MS" variety, while some are > embedded in returns of mail I didn't send. > > This is driving me nuts, and certainly proves that Windows viruses ca

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-24 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 04:30:13AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Read the thread "MS Mail Bombs" that started a few days ago, > particularly: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200309/msg03898.html Thanks. I searched for spam, virus, and a few other things, but not "bomb" or "M

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-24 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:01:07 +0100 Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no provision that I know of in fetchmail to filter stuff before > it downloads it, but you could have exim4 filter it before it gets to > your mailbox. preconnect "mailfilter" will allow you to filter and del

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 11:09, Martin Jungowski wrote: > > Can you go to someone else who will let you use SMTP to get mail? (Like > > Demon Internet in the UK.) > > Uh... I think you got that wrong. Isn't SMTP just for delivering/sending > mail? Receiving mail is either POP3 or IMAP but as far as I

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-24 Thread Martin Jungowski
> Can you go to someone else who will let you use SMTP to get mail? (Like > Demon Internet in the UK.) Uh... I think you got that wrong. Isn't SMTP just for delivering/sending mail? Receiving mail is either POP3 or IMAP but as far as I know, not SMTP. Martin > -- > Oliver Elphick

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 08:43, Ross Boylan wrote: > I have been getting over 100 of these stupid MS virus emails a day. > Some are the "install this patch from MS" variety, while some are > embedded in returns of mail I didn't send. > > This is driving me nuts, and certainly proves that Windows viru

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 02:43, Ross Boylan wrote: > I have been getting over 100 of these stupid MS virus emails a day. > Some are the "install this patch from MS" variety, while some are > embedded in returns of mail I didn't send. > > This is driving me nuts, and certainly proves that Windows viru

Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-24 Thread Ross Boylan
I have been getting over 100 of these stupid MS virus emails a day. Some are the "install this patch from MS" variety, while some are embedded in returns of mail I didn't send. This is driving me nuts, and certainly proves that Windows viruses can be very harmful to Linux users, even if they can't