Thanks for all the help guys. I've installed clamav and set it to quietly refuse the Novarg virus (rather than trying to bounce all back to non-existent senders), and it seems to be successfully stomping on the beasty.
Thanks again - Regards, Richard -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Barnes Sent: Wednesday, 28 January 2004 4:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] virus Christopher X. Candreva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suggest simply installing clamav and additionally passing mail > through it. Clam runs as a daemon and is actually much faster than > SpamAssassin. > > Clamav was catching Novarg here almost immediately (I have a cron job > that checks for virus updates once an hour). Let me 2nd this - on the server I run for my dept, we have had ZERO messages get through with this virus. Otoh, I spent 2 hours on the phone with a dozen or so friends explaining to them how to get this off of their machines (sometimes it isn't fun being the "helpdesk to the community"). -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes Computer Systems Manager ph: 979-845-7801 Department of Physics fax: 979-845-2590 Texas A&M University ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk