At 02:22 PM 6/5/01 -0400, you wrote: >I think this has been brought up before, but a quick text search of postings >didn't turn up anything. > >Today we were infected again by a vbs virus on the groups. The way we deal >with it is that once a user realizes that there is an infected posting, they >call, and we delete it. No problem except that there could be 1000 people >infected in an hour. > >We do a lot of attachment postings, so .doc .gif, .jpg, .tif .exe would all >need to go through but how about stopping .vbs? > >Thank you for your input. Using 5.5b3 or later add to your me.rul file (set one up if you don't have one) (see http://netwinsite.com/dnews/rules.htm) if (attach("*.exe,*.vbs,*.bat,*.jav*")) reject "Message contains executable programs" You can extend that list to cover anything you want. ChrisP.
