I just discovered that one of our lists was used to distribute a worm
called Win32/Ska.A (A.K.A. Happy99.exe). This got me thinking, has
anyone plugged in any type of virus detection software into the
pipe to their server to try and stop such files being distributed
via your lists?
Cordially,
The List Server Admin
list.admin@unh.edu
(currently Bill Costa)
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, The List Server Administrator at UNH wrote:
I just discovered that one of our lists was used to distribute a worm called Win32/Ska.A (A.K.A. Happy99.exe). This got me thinking, has anyone plugged in any type of virus detection software into the pipe to their server to try and stop such files being distributed via your lists?
That should be done at the individual server level. It should NOT be done at the mailing list software level. Get real.
-- _Deirdre * http://www.linuxcabal.net * http://www.deirdre.net Indeed, when I design <em>my</em> killer language, the identifiers "foo" and "bar" will be reserved words, never used, and not even mentioned in the reference manual. Any program using one will simply dump core without comment. Multitudes will rejoice. -- Tim Peters
Deirdre Saoirse <deirdre@deirdre.net> recently wrote (in part)
to my question regarding virus detection...That should be done at the individual server level. It should NOT be done at the mailing list software level. Get real.
I was thinking of something simple that goes in between the MTA and
the MLM rather than having to muck with either.
Cordially,
The List Server Admin
list.admin@unh.edu
(currently Bill Costa)
heres a mail virus scanner ... is this kinda what you were thinkin of?
Jordan Phillips blurr@txraves.org http://www.txraves.org
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
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