On Mar 5, 2004, at 9:15 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
On 05/03/04 11:02, "Bruce Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip!][snip!]FWIW, we're simply automatically blocking any attachment that ends in .exe, .scr, .bat, .pif, and since last week, all .zip files as well. That really pisses me off! All the others were not useful, but .zip files are used legitimately; having to block them is causing a hassle (though it's getting Stuffit installed on more systems, since we're not having to block .sit or .tgz files...yet...)
Zip archives? At some point, I'm afraid that no system on the internet will accept any attachment...
Yeah, the latest round of 'bagle' viruses are propagating as zip files.
We're hurtling towards that 'no attachment' point at a pretty fair clip. :-(
My ISP does a pretty good job of blocking most spam and virus e-mail. But even that became a gotcha for me last year. There was a virus going around which went in various forms but one of which was "Latest Microsoft Patch" or something akin. My ISP was block most of them but there were so many and the attachment was so large that they started filling up my disk allocation at my ISP. They hold all filtered mail for 7 days so I can go get items that aren't spam. But I was getting at the peak about 500 a day and at 100,000 bytes a piece, a day and a half or less filled up my 80Mb allocation. I was going in and purging filtered messages two or three times a day just in case.
Don't worry about the no attachment bit. As soon as it goes into effect Microsloth will come out with a "feature" in their e-mail which will allow spreading viri as source code in the message or something equally devious. Remember, M$ is committed to widespread dissemination of hackerware.
Between spam and viruses, we're going to lose e-mail as a viable form of communication, probably sooner than later.
This is something that was a revolution in personal communication (IM and phones require that people be there at the same time. E-mail is asynchronous, yet nearly as instantaneous as a phone call, and personally, since I'm hard of hearing, it's a godsend for coherent communication), and greedheads and sociopaths are taking it away from us.
I have a deep, visceral desire to stick some of these people up on pikes, they bring out my inner Vlad...<http://members.aol.com/atamas/impaler.jpg>
I like that, "my inner Vlad". I'll have to remember that one.
Personally I go for a range of treatments for spammers and e-bio warfare types. They range from old standards like staking them to ant hills up to various usage of small nuclear devices.
--Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group
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