From: Wade <neroz@ii.net>
To: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: ATTACK TO MY SYSTEM
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 03:24:43 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F709DFB.10504@ii.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030923115039.A30231@animx.eu.org>
Wakko Warner wrote:
>>First, apologies to all since this is technically offtopic, but there
>>does seem to be enough interest in this subject that I'll provide a
>>short answer here.
>
>
> Hate to keep it going, but...
>
>
>>The problem with the W32.Swen.A@mm worm/virus became severe enough that
>>my home account on 56k dialup was almost unusable. I've been getting
>>hundreds of these large emails per day for the past several days, and
>>the problem seems to be getting worse, not better.
>
>
> I'm running my own mailserver and it's hard not to accept it. I have
> basically done checks in the from and to headers. If it appears as a virus,
> i lockout the smtp sender. It's not permenant. When the virus stops, i
> unblock every one.
>
Why not block mail with attachments which end in .pif or .exe? Who needs
that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-23 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-23 9:12 ATTACK TO MY SYSTEM german aracil boned
2003-09-23 10:01 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-09-23 12:01 ` Jan Evert van Grootheest
2003-09-23 12:17 ` [OFFTOPIC] " Russell King
2003-09-23 12:38 ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-23 13:43 ` iptables kernel german aracil boned
2003-09-23 12:55 ` [OFFTOPIC] Re: ATTACK TO MY SYSTEM Maciej Soltysiak
2003-09-23 13:41 ` jw schultz
2003-09-23 16:36 ` Gerhard Mack
2003-09-23 16:44 ` Maciej Soltysiak
2003-09-23 12:50 ` Breno
2003-09-23 13:40 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-09-23 14:43 ` [OT] " Steven Cole
2003-09-23 15:50 ` Wakko Warner
2003-09-23 19:24 ` Wade [this message]
2003-09-23 20:06 ` Willy Tarreau
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-24 7:40 John Bradford
2003-09-24 8:46 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-09-24 8:59 ` Jörn Engel
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