George, you'll find a similar reply from one of our administrators addressed
to you personally about this.
This list is virus filtered already. The behaviour of our virus filter is to
replace attached viruses with a harmless text file which contains :
"RAV AntiVirus has deleted this file because it contained dangerous code!"
We have confirmed in the system logs that the message you refer to did
indeed get stripped of it's virus before delivery to the list. The
attachment included in the message is harmless.
We have already deleted the message from the archives however, if anyone has
the message stored in their local mail client, they can easily verify this
information.
I will explore the possibility of stripping attachments from this list
altogether. Thanks for the feedback!
Edward Gray
Director, Operations & Networks
Tucows Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of George Kirikos
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 2:17 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: I wasn't the source of the virus that just got sent to the
> list....
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I noticed there was a message sent to the Discuss-List spoofing my
> Yahoo email address. It's the MyDoom virus that is presumably grabbing
> email addresses from websites, etc. or address books. So, don't touch
> the attachment.
>
> The message is located on the archive at:
>
> http://www.opensrs.org/archives/discuss-list/0401/0180.html
>
> so it should probably be deleted from there too (otherwise, could be
> misused by others to launch attacks via links to it).
>
> In addition, the list administrators might want to auto-discard/bounce
> emails containing attachments (there's almost no good reason to have
> attachments sent to the list). Plain text is best, and one can always
> add a link to anything big or non-text within the plain text email.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> George Kirikos
> http://www.kirikos.com/
>
