Amarendra GODBOLE rearranged electrons thusly:
> On Sat, Nov 04, 2000, the greycells of Amol Gokhale expressed:
> > I jst received a mail supposedly from the vsnl admin.It was sent from the
> > bom5 server. The mail was carrying an attachment which had a virus. How do
> > I complain against this?
> I suggest you go through : http://india.cauce.org
> It is the home of Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email aka SPAM.
> You will find all info there.
> Suresh and Binand, please take a note of this.
It is not likely to be from VSNL at all - As the VSNL admins generally use
pine, you won't get virus attachments from them (however clueless they may
generally be). In fact, there is no such address as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Was the from line <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (admin followed by two underscores), with
an X-Mailer header of PupiMail? If so, that is a virus like Happy99 / Melissa,
which remails itself to all users in the address book, with a copy of the virus
attached. This is the old 'winfix / microsoft y2k fix'
virus.
Solution - use sendmail / procmail to dev/null admin__@* - it will be a virus.
I recently did this on all our (dozen or so) mailservers after several of them
(including bpl mobile's SMS gateways) were facing several hits from infected
computers, about 6 months back.
[In fact, instead of procmail, use your local copy of sendmail to block this if
you are running linux on your desktop - rtfm about access.db in /etc/mail]
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Suresh Ramasubramanian + [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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