on Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:14:15PM -0400, Marc Shapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I hadn't seen any SWEN in months,
Until I finally caved and activated my ISP's virus blocking/stripping solution (I'd rather just block the fsckers at SMTP time -- and *shock*, my ISP appears to be doing this at least sometime now), I was seeing perhaps 20-40 a day. Well down from peak. But not even hardly gone. Mostly coming from highly rfc-ignorant domains / ASNs. > so I slipped up and posted a few messages to the list using my regular > account (instead of this HOTMAIL account set up only for posting to > debian-user and receiving all of my SWEN). Yesterday, I received what > looked like a SWEN e-mail. The subject was "Security Update". The > payload had already been stripped, so I don't know if the size matched > SWEN, or not. Has anyone else started receiving SWEN again (or has it > been out there all along, and I have just been lucky)? There are numerous malware engines which scan recent Usenet posts (d-u is gatewayed to several groups) and will generate spam to people posting. While viruses don't _infect_ GNU/Linux systems, they do _affect_ them, and appropriate AV filtering of mail can be useful. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Many hands make light work.
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