Can you install a virus scanner?  Clam Anti-Virus is successfully blocking
all of the virus-infected messages coming from this list on my MTA.

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Alex Yamauchi
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> Hello, all - I found a way to bounce the virus-infected messages that
> have been hitting this list over the past week from within Postfix. It
> is actually a rather broad method - we're now blocking ALL messages
> that include UPX-compressed executable files.
>
> After noticing that a lot of virus and worm programs were listed as
> having been compressed with UPX, I searched GOOGLE in a vain attempt
> to find out what "signature" was common to UPX executables. No one
> listed one, so I resorted to using UPX on a variety of files and
> comparing them. I came up with three REGEXPs to do the job, but only
> the first two are really necessary.
>
> If you are taking advantage of Postfix's body expression filtering,
> add to your list one or both of the following (the first being the
> best, in my opinion, in light of the fact that Postfix only checks one
> line at a time):
>
> /^TV......................AAAAAAAAHAAAAA.............J9x6ptYCMyAUFAI7YB...$/i
> /^jsD986X8LoBsEhBz55KvrQ4O..................VQWCELAwMI....................$/i
>
> These match the first two lines of any UPX-compressed EXE file that
> has been MIME encoded. The /i is important; it forces Postfix to check
> in a CASE-SENSITIVE manner, to reduce false positives. You will, of
> course, have to add your own prefered actions to the lines; I have
> Postfix bounce the message with a "Possible infected binary rejected"
> response.
>
> This has NOT been tested extensively - while the REGEXP matched 100%
> of the UPX-compressed and 0% of the non-UPX-compressed files I tested,
> I only tested a dozen, so your results might vary. It's already
> bounced two messages from this list in the 24 hours I've had it
> online.
>
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