On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Mike Maravillo wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 03:39:35PM +0800, @rth wrote:
> > There's really an outbreak!
> > my qmail + qmail-scanner on linux intercepted 2000 infected
> > mails. According to Trend is uses the same name as attachement,
> > maybe you can filter based on attachement name if you don't
> > have viruscan installed.
>
> I guess the reason for the outbreak is that the latest datfile of
> NAI (4149) does not detect this particular strain of the virus?
> It was able to pass through a friend's postfix+uvscan box this
> morning. The same thing happened maybe with other servers using
> NAI's scanner.
Actually it does get detected with the latest mcafee dats. My system just
got the latest datfile yesterday (my script auto detects new datfiles),
and the sircam virus was included in the sigs. In fact i've got several
warning messages already today in my low-traffic mail relay...
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