On Wednesday 01 January 2003 02:15 am, Jim Morris honored me with this communique: > I agree with blocking attachments. > > The sad fact is that if you just ban a user email address that sent a > virus to the mailing list, you may be banning an innocent person! > > I have been seeing a LOT of 'virus removal' messages directed towards > my email address, saying that I sent an infected email to a person I > never even heard of. The sad fact is, many of these Outlook based > viruses forge the sender address using other addresses on the infected > computer. I have never used Outlook - all my email is read on either > Linux or Mac OS X. I don't even use Windows based email clients - maybe > Mozilla once in a blue moon.... those infected emails came from > someone who may have once received mail from me, who DOES run a virus > engine such as Outlook..... >
Precisely the problem! The "Klez" virus variants pick a name from the address book of the infected user and apply that to the "from" field, so the actual originator is disguised. Most of the many listservers I am subscribed to already ban attachments because too many viruses have been spread around accidentally. It is the easiest solution. Also, since I run Samba to allow Windows and Linux to get along, I only read this list (and most others) from my Linux box. Jay DeKing Thought for the day: "Practice safe computing. Delete Outlook, install a firewall/router and use *nix." -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
