my email address is being used to send these things out too. you not alone Edward.
cheers joe Joe Baptista: USG Portal www.joebaptista.com, Personal www.baptista.god Chief Internet Scientist, / System Administrator to .GOD and .SATAN TTF-Bucksfan www.gov.ttf / www.nic.god, www.nic.satan or www.dot-god.com another useless fact .... There are more than 15,000 different varieties of rice. On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Edward Gray wrote: > 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/ > > > >
