I've been on this list since 1997 and have probably received hundreds or thousands of viruses in that time. The only impact I've ever noticed is that people who use MUAs that allow viruses to interact with their OS will mention it to the list when they occur.
If you have such an MUA, I agree with Mike: accept it or find an MUA that only does things related to mail and not a bunch of other things like forwarding viruses (should only forward manually or via your MTA). Consider a different mailer, or update your virus definitions at all times. Either way, it doesn't affect anyone who don't run windows and esp. Look Out!!! MUA. Nuf said? Thanks, Van sql create table, mysqladmin drop mysql ========================================================================= Linux rocks!!! http://www.dedserius.com ========================================================================= On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Michael McTernan wrote: > Hi, > > Since joining the list I'm getting about 6 virus emails a day. Fortunately > the firewall is stripping them for me and just sending me alerts telling me > the virus and the sender of the mail e.g. > > The message senders were > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The message title was latest internet security pack > The message date was 4 Nov 2003 09:58:03 +0100 > The virus or unauthorised code identified in the email is > /var/qmail/queue/split/0/attach/422738_7X_PM10_EMS_MA-X=2DMSDOWNLOAD__instal > ler355.exe > Found the W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] virus !!! > > I think it is unfortunate, and people should be aware of this, but it's just > one of those things that happen... oh well! > > Thanks, > > Mike > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Leo Huang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 05 November 2003 12:39 > > To: Al Bogner > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Viruses from the list > > > > > > Al Bogner, > > > > Thanks for you info. > > > > Yes, I got quite a few as well. About Microsoft update stuff etc. > > > > But I think emails with viruses are quite common, my mail server > > captures around 2,000 emails with virus everyday. Also this is an old > > virus(relatively speaking), so it should be fine, I think. > > > > Leo > > > > > > Al Bogner wrote: > > > > >I use an email-adress for this list only and since my first > > posting a few days > > >ago I got viruses, while I didn't before. > > > > > >VIRUS FROM mamo @ hvd.healthnet.lu (W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > >VIRUS FROM kawamoto @ wave.tky.plala.or.jp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > >VIRUS FROM sales @ vulcanford.ca (W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED])/[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > > >Wake up people, it was time enough to update virus-definitions. > > Clean your > > >pcs. > > > > > >I will disable my email-adress soon. > > > > > >Al > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > MySQL General Mailing List > > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
