Regarding the recent viruses sent through the list
Hi All, Norman Diamond just brought my attention to the fact a Windows virus was sent through the list on Sat, 21 Sept. The message ID was 314 (you can retreive it from the archive with a mail to m17n-get.314@suse.com if you need to see it for some reason) and the subject was "Have a nice Epiphany". The person who sent it has been removed from the list and blocked from resubscribing. So if you're running Windows you may want to pull out the talismans or whatever it is you normally do when these things spread. On almost all of our public mailing lists I normally remove all attachments that aren't plain text or pgp/gpg-related. I wasn't doing it on this list since Dr. Fabian and I thought that sending attachments might useful given the topic of the list. If you have suggestions for other mimetypes that should be allowed please let me know off the list. Cheers, -- -ckm
Hi I don't think that removing now and any future joining from that person would mean that we'll not get more viruses, I think that the best idea is to have a virus scanner on the server which processes mail. I use both Linux and Windows and I've no problems with viruses, I've and up-to-date antivirus in my machine and a virusscanner running on every message I receive on my mail server... As a result all that viruses that I received where deleted directly at the server-level having my box antivirus idle ;) So, have a look at "http://mailscanner.info" and to f-prot's non-profit license Regards On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
Spanish Translation Team <STT@Alufis35.uv.es> --- Ibán José García Castillo <Iban.Garcia@Alufis35.uv.es> Pablo Iranzo Gómez <Pablo.Iranzo@uv.es> Francisco Javier Moreno Sigüenza <Javier.Moreno@Alufis35.uv.es> ---
* Spanish Translation Team (STT@Alufis35.uv.es) [021005 03:25]:
Sorry, but I don't agree. Virus scanners open mail servers to some very stupid denial of service attacks (e.g., What happens if someone sends an attachment containing 2GBs of compressed zeros?) and, since most are binary-only software, reliance on the vendors word that the software is secure. Why should we compromise the security of our mail servers because some people run insecure clients? The viruses don't affect us. In any case, I've enabled the the mime and html filtering I normally do for our other lists so it shouldn't be an issue anymore. Thanks, P.S. Please send responses, if any, to m17n-owner@suse.com and not through the list. -- -ckm
Hi I don't think that removing now and any future joining from that person would mean that we'll not get more viruses, I think that the best idea is to have a virus scanner on the server which processes mail. I use both Linux and Windows and I've no problems with viruses, I've and up-to-date antivirus in my machine and a virusscanner running on every message I receive on my mail server... As a result all that viruses that I received where deleted directly at the server-level having my box antivirus idle ;) So, have a look at "http://mailscanner.info" and to f-prot's non-profit license Regards On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
Spanish Translation Team <STT@Alufis35.uv.es> --- Ibán José García Castillo <Iban.Garcia@Alufis35.uv.es> Pablo Iranzo Gómez <Pablo.Iranzo@uv.es> Francisco Javier Moreno Sigüenza <Javier.Moreno@Alufis35.uv.es> ---
* Spanish Translation Team (STT@Alufis35.uv.es) [021005 03:25]:
Sorry, but I don't agree. Virus scanners open mail servers to some very stupid denial of service attacks (e.g., What happens if someone sends an attachment containing 2GBs of compressed zeros?) and, since most are binary-only software, reliance on the vendors word that the software is secure. Why should we compromise the security of our mail servers because some people run insecure clients? The viruses don't affect us. In any case, I've enabled the the mime and html filtering I normally do for our other lists so it shouldn't be an issue anymore. Thanks, P.S. Please send responses, if any, to m17n-owner@suse.com and not through the list. -- -ckm
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