Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-10 Thread Jan Pieter Cornet
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:37:02PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote:
 Anyway, amavisd-new lists a dozen or so examples:
 
 # Treat envelope sender address as unreliable and don't send sender
 # notification / bounces if name(s) of detected virus(es) match the list.
 # Note that virus names are supplied by external virus scanner(s) and are
 # not standardized, so virus names may need to be adjusted.
 # See README.lookups for syntax.
 #
 $viruses_that_fake_sender_re = new_RE(
   qr'nimda|hybris|klez|bugbear|yaha|braid|sobig|fizzer|palyh|peido|holar'i,
   qr'tanatos|lentin|bridex|mimail|trojan\.dropper'i,
 );

This list is pretty much incomplete (at least sober, somefool and mydoom
are missing, to name a few). And having this makes you follow the latest
virus definitions scanning for possible new virus strands that fake their
sender.

I believe it's way easier to do the opposite: list only viruses that do
NOT fake the sender. The only ones you'd expect to find in email are
things like eicar, joke and macro viruses.

This is probably a better regex:

$viruses_that_dont_fake_sender_re = 
qr{ ^( Joke
 | Eicar
 | OF97
 | WM(97)?
 | W(97)?M
 | (Word)?Macro
 )(\b|_)
  }xi;

Anyone got any comment or suggestions about this list? (You can of course
include all oldfashioned .com and .exe infectors, and it would be wise to
do so for any still in the wild, but I don't know if there are any.)

Unfortunately the information available from various virus scanners never
includes a field virus has its own SMTP engine and fakes sender addresses,
or this would be a lot easier.

-- 
#!perl -wpl # mmfppfmpmmpp mmpffm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$p=3-2*/[^\W\dmpf_]/i;s.[a-z]{$p}.vec($f=join('',$p-1?chr(sub{$_[0]*9+$_[1]*3+
$_[2]}-(map{/p|f/i+/f/i}split//,$)+97):qw(m p f)[map{((ord$)%32-1)/$_%3}(9,
3,1)]),5,1)='`'lt$;$f.eig;# Jan-Pieter Cornet
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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-10 Thread Kelson Vibber

Jan Pieter Cornet wrote:

I believe it's way easier to do the opposite: list only viruses that do
NOT fake the sender. The only ones you'd expect to find in email are
things like eicar, joke and macro viruses.


I just check for a small list (Mimail, Sober, etc.), plus anything that 
starts with Worm. or contains @mm.  @MM is used by Norton, McAfee 
and others to indicate a worm that does its own mass mailing.  Yeah, the 
criteria are slightly different -- it's looking for self-mailers and 
worms rather than specifically self-mailers that forge the sender -- but 
it does the job here.



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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-10 Thread Noel Jones

At 06:51 AM 1/10/2006, Jan Pieter Cornet wrote:

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:37:02PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote:
 Anyway, amavisd-new lists a dozen or so examples:

 # Treat envelope sender address as unreliable and don't 
send sender
 # notification / bounces if name(s) of detected 
virus(es) match the list.
 # Note that virus names are supplied by external virus 
scanner(s) and are

 # not standardized, so virus names may need to be adjusted.
 # See README.lookups for syntax.
 #
 $viruses_that_fake_sender_re = new_RE(
 
qr'nimda|hybris|klez|bugbear|yaha|braid|sobig|fizzer|palyh|peido|holar'i,

   qr'tanatos|lentin|bridex|mimail|trojan\.dropper'i,
 );

This list is pretty much incomplete (at least sober, 
somefool and mydoom
are missing, to name a few). And having this makes you 
follow the latest
virus definitions scanning for possible new virus strands 
that fake their

sender.

I believe it's way easier to do the opposite: list only 
viruses that do
NOT fake the sender. The only ones you'd expect to find in 
email are

things like eicar, joke and macro viruses.


For the last couple years amavisd-new assumes the sender is 
fake but for a few exceptions by default.  The above list 
is from a much older version which required manual updating.


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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-07 Thread Luca Gibelli

Hello Christopher,

 This way my users' mailboxes aren't cluttered with notices, but if a message 
 they were expecting just doesn't show up, they can search the DB of what was 
 thrown out to see if what they were waiting for was junked.

FWIW amavisnewsql does a similar thing
(http://freshmeat.net/projects/amavisnewsql/).

Best regards

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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread M.S. Lucas

From: Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Ok,
your massages convinced me only to report the sender.
I don't want only blackhole the message and nothing else, because i think
one of the both, the sender or the recipient should get informed.

If you do that please only inform your local users and *non* of the internet 
users. And hope that you don't receive any major virus/spam attack because 
my users wouldn't appriciate it if I send them 45546752 messages because of 
a virus run and I want to tell them how good I am at stopping the virus.


Maurice Lucas 


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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Erwan David
Le Fri  6/01/2006, Michael disait
 Ok,
 your massages convinced me only to report the sender.
 I don't want only blackhole the message and nothing else, because i think
 one of the both, the sender or the recipient should get informed.

But you do not know the sender. You only know an address that the
virus presents as the sender address. And you trust the virus...

-- 
Erwan David
==
Trusted Logic Tel: +33 1 30 97 25 03
5 rue du BailliageStd: +33 1 30 97 25 00
78000 Versailles  Fax: +33 1 30 97 25 19
France
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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Michael

But you do not know the sender. You only know an address that the
virus presents as the sender address. And you trust the virus...


Ok, i see you must have experience. Are there really so many 
virussender who specify a fake REAL EXIST mail address?


Michael Neurohr
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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Erwan David
Le Fri  6/01/2006, Michael disait
 But you do not know the sender. You only know an address that the
 virus presents as the sender address. And you trust the virus...
 
 Ok, i see you must have experience. Are there really so many 
 virussender who specify a fake REAL EXIST mail address?

Too many for people who receive the kind of notification you want to
send.


-- 
Erwan David
==
Trusted Logic Tel: +33 1 30 97 25 03
5 rue du BailliageStd: +33 1 30 97 25 00
78000 Versailles  Fax: +33 1 30 97 25 19
France
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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread M.S. Lucas

From: Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]

If you do that please only inform your local users and *non* of the
internet users.


I only want to send a message back to the sender, that he knows about the 
rejected mail.

Why do you mean that there may come about so many mails?


Because a lot of virusses fake a sender address. Don't trust the AV name of 
a virus, don't trust a virus for correct sender information, don't trust 
anybody except yourself (and the signature makers from clamav ;) )


I could simple send you a message comming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
with a virus would you send a you have a virus warning back?


Everybody runs a virus scanner these days (otherwise shoot them). I receive 
thousands of messages these days that I or my customers have a virus. None 
of them are real and all of them are faked mesages.


Inject the following in your smtp server and enjoy your own system

telnet neurohr.at 25

helo neurohr.at
mail From: Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rcpt to: Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]
data
INSERT EICAR VIRUS HERE
.


see the bounce message in your own inbox that you have a virus ;)

Maurice Lucas 


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RE: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Randal, Phil
  But you do not know the sender. You only know an address that the 
  virus presents as the sender address. And you trust the virus...
 
 Ok, i see you must have experience. Are there really so many 
 virussender who specify a fake REAL EXIST mail address?
 
 Michael Neurohr

Many viruses harvest email addresses from the infected PC user's address
book and inbox etc and use these as the From: address.

And I can verify that this is the case from the number of virus bounces
we get from clueless sites which still insist on sending the (spoofed)
senders virus warnings.

Incidentally, 5 minutes on Google would have told you the answer.

Cheers,

Phil

Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK
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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Leif Neland

 Original Message 
From: Randal, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ClamAV users ML clamav-users@lists.clamav.net
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 12:23 PM
Subject: RE: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user


But you do not know the sender. You only know an address that the
virus presents as the sender address. And you trust the virus...


Ok, i see you must have experience. Are there really so many
virussender who specify a fake REAL EXIST mail address?

Michael Neurohr


Many viruses harvest email addresses from the infected PC user's
address book and inbox etc and use these as the From: address.

And I can verify that this is the case from the number of virus
bounces we get from clueless sites which still insist on sending the
(spoofed) senders virus warnings.


What you can (in most cases) see is the ip of the infected machine.

I trapped a virus which appearently originated at the ip of the firewall of 
a company I know.
As I know they have no mailserver inside of their firewall (it's in the 
DMZ), I called them and told they were infected.


Leif

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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
Michael said:
 Ok,
 your massages convinced me only to report the sender.
 I don't want only blackhole the message and nothing else, because i think
 one of the both, the sender or the recipient should get informed.

Since there is no way to know who the sender is, and since the recipient
is not likely interested in messages telling them they didn't get a
message because it had a virus, why not send the rejection message to
Cindy Sheehan who seems to crave attention. Or better yet, just don't send
anything at all. There is no point.

If you cannot reject it before the final .crlfcrlf then you keep it. It's
dead. Pinin' for the fjords, bleeding demised, an ex-message, shuffled off
it's mortal coil, lovely plumage and all.

dp... with thanks to Monty Python
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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Dennis Peterson wrote:

 If you cannot reject it before the final .crlfcrlf then you keep it. It's
 dead. Pinin' for the fjords, bleeding demised, an ex-message, shuffled off
 it's mortal coil, lovely plumage and all.

I will submit one other possibility: I use --postmaster-only to send the 
notices to a specific address, then have procmail pipe those to a script 
that parses it and adds specific information to an SQL database -- 
(From To Subject Date/Time and what Virus). 

This way my users' mailboxes aren't cluttered with notices, but if a message 
they were expecting just doesn't show up, they can search the DB of what was 
thrown out to see if what they were waiting for was junked.


==
Chris Candreva  -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (914) 967-7816
WestNet Internet Services of Westchester
http://www.westnet.com/
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RE: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Leif Neland wrote:
 Ok, i see you must have experience. Are there really so many
 virussender who specify a fake REAL EXIST mail address?
 
 Michael Neurohr
 
 Many viruses harvest email addresses from the infected PC user's
 address book and inbox etc and use these as the From: address.
 
 And I can verify that this is the case from the number of virus
 bounces we get from clueless sites which still insist on sending the
 (spoofed) senders virus warnings.
 
 What you can (in most cases) see is the ip of the infected machine.

Bingo.  I'd have a little more respect for AV programs if, instead of reporting 
to the envelope-sender, they did a WHOIS lookup on the sending IP and emailed 
the virus notification to the responsible party for the narrowest containing 
subnet.

-- 
Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com   805.964.4554 x902
Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com   Software Engineer
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RE: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Brian McDonald

I will submit one other possibility: I use --postmaster-only to send the
notices to a specific address, then have procmail pipe those to a script
that parses it and adds specific information to an SQL database --
(From To Subject Date/Time and what Virus).

This way my users' mailboxes aren't cluttered with notices, but if a
message
they were expecting just doesn't show up, they can search the DB of what
was
thrown out to see if what they were waiting for was junked.

Chris this sounds like an excellent solution can you share how you did this?

Brian


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RE: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Brian McDonald wrote:
 I will submit one other possibility: I use --postmaster-only to send
 the notices to a specific address, then have procmail pipe those to
 a script that parses it and adds specific information to an SQL
 database -- (From To Subject Date/Time and what Virus).
 
 This way my users' mailboxes aren't cluttered with notices, but if a
 message they were expecting just doesn't show up, they can search
 the DB of what was thrown out to see if what they were waiting for
 was junked. 
 
 Chris this sounds like an excellent solution can you share how you
 did this? 
 
 Brian

Yes, please wikify it for posterity...
http://wiki.clamav.net/

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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
Michael said:
 But you do not know the sender. You only know an address that the
 virus presents as the sender address. And you trust the virus...

 Ok, i see you must have experience. Are there really so many
 virussender who specify a fake REAL EXIST mail address?

There are few that do not. The spam/virus industry is built around sloppy
code running on trashed Windows robotic spam boxen. They have little
intelligence or ability to harvest actual sender names. Nor do they need
real names. Made up ones work just fine and are easy to create.

dp
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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Kelson Vibber

Michael wrote:

But you do not know the sender. You only know an address that the
virus presents as the sender address. And you trust the virus...


Ok, i see you must have experience. Are there really so many virussender 
who specify a fake REAL EXIST mail address?


YES!  All major email viruses do that these days.

The virus makes a list of email addresses, whether from an address book, 
cached web pages, local documents, a Google search, etc.  Many viruses 
just pick two of those addresses at random and use one for the sender 
and the other for the recipient.  Others just pick the recipient and 
choose a likely admin address for their domain, like 
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. -- and those often exist.


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SpeedGate Communications, www.speed.net
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RE: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Brian McDonald wrote:

 Chris this sounds like an excellent solution can you share how you did this?

Calling it a hack is an insult to hacks. :-)  I'll try to take some time and 
make a version I can put out (remove our IP addresses, SQL passwords, etc)



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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Friday 06 January 2006 02:24, Michael wrote:
 Ok,
 your massages convinced me only to report the sender.
 I don't want only blackhole the message and nothing else, because i think
 one of the both, the sender or the recipient should get informed.

no

you should NEVER notify the sender.

the sender 99.% of the time is NOT the real 'sender' of the message.

you should simply BOUNCE (as in, reject the message at the door with a 5xx 
response) or bitbucket (accept it with 2xx, but throw it in the trash) the 
message.

If you wish to annoy your users, you can also optionally send them a report, 
but they will probably get pissed off.

At any rate, DO NOT SEND NOTIFICATIONS TO THE SENDER.

-Jeremy

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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Friday 06 January 2006 03:13, Michael wrote:
  But you do not know the sender. You only know an address that the
  virus presents as the sender address. And you trust the virus...

 Ok, i see you must have experience. Are there really so many
 virussender who specify a fake REAL EXIST mail address?

yes, almost all modern viruses forge their envelope sender.

-Jeremy

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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
Christopher X. Candreva said:
 On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Dennis Peterson wrote:

 If you cannot reject it before the final .crlfcrlf then you keep it.
 It's
 dead. Pinin' for the fjords, bleeding demised, an ex-message, shuffled
 off
 it's mortal coil, lovely plumage and all.

 I will submit one other possibility: I use --postmaster-only to send the
 notices to a specific address, then have procmail pipe those to a script
 that parses it and adds specific information to an SQL database --
 (From To Subject Date/Time and what Virus).

 This way my users' mailboxes aren't cluttered with notices, but if a
 message
 they were expecting just doesn't show up, they can search the DB of what
 was
 thrown out to see if what they were waiting for was junked.


That's a friendly service and doesn't dirty up the Internet. Very nice.

dp
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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Friday 06 January 2006 08:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Leif Neland wrote:
  Ok, i see you must have experience. Are there really so many
  virussender who specify a fake REAL EXIST mail address?
 
  Michael Neurohr
 
  Many viruses harvest email addresses from the infected PC user's
  address book and inbox etc and use these as the From: address.
 
  And I can verify that this is the case from the number of virus
  bounces we get from clueless sites which still insist on sending the
  (spoofed) senders virus warnings.
 
  What you can (in most cases) see is the ip of the infected machine.

 Bingo.  I'd have a little more respect for AV programs if, instead of
 reporting to the envelope-sender, they did a WHOIS lookup on the sending IP
 and emailed the virus notification to the responsible party for the
 narrowest containing subnet.

well, the problem with that is.. there's really no unified format for knowing 
where to send these reports from a machine point of view.  I've considered 
doing stuff like this myself, but I realized after investigating it how 
stupid difficult it is to even start trying to do it.

good idea, but the infrastructure is not in place in the backend to be able to 
make it possible.

-Jeremy

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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Chuck Swiger

Michael wrote:

But you do not know the sender. You only know an address that the
virus presents as the sender address. And you trust the virus...
 
Ok, i see you must have experience. Are there really so many virussender 
who specify a fake REAL EXIST mail address?


I infer that you've never had one of your users or domains be used as a forged 
sender address?  (You'd know the answer is yes, if you had. :-)


Anyway, amavisd-new lists a dozen or so examples:

# Treat envelope sender address as unreliable and don't send sender
# notification / bounces if name(s) of detected virus(es) match the list.
# Note that virus names are supplied by external virus scanner(s) and are
# not standardized, so virus names may need to be adjusted.
# See README.lookups for syntax.
#
$viruses_that_fake_sender_re = new_RE(
  qr'nimda|hybris|klez|bugbear|yaha|braid|sobig|fizzer|palyh|peido|holar'i,
  qr'tanatos|lentin|bridex|mimail|trojan\.dropper'i,
);

...and there will be more to come, no doubt.  I still see Nimbda, Klez, and 
Sobig wandering by in the ~5 viral emails average per day that make it through 
other filtering like postgrey's greylisting.


--
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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Steven Spence

Jeremy Kitchen wrote:

On Friday 06 January 2006 02:24, Michael wrote:


Ok,
your massages convinced me only to report the sender.
I don't want only blackhole the message and nothing else, because i think
one of the both, the sender or the recipient should get informed.



no

you should NEVER notify the sender.


I wouldn't say never.  If you had authenticated SMTP set up you could
always send the notification back to the sender using the username
supplied during the SMTP authentication process.  After authentication
has succedeed of course. :)
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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Friday 06 January 2006 09:55, Steven Spence wrote:
 Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
  On Friday 06 January 2006 02:24, Michael wrote:
 Ok,
 your massages convinced me only to report the sender.
 I don't want only blackhole the message and nothing else, because i think
 one of the both, the sender or the recipient should get informed.
 
  no
 
  you should NEVER notify the sender.

 I wouldn't say never.  If you had authenticated SMTP set up you could
 always send the notification back to the sender using the username
 supplied during the SMTP authentication process.  After authentication
 has succedeed of course. :)

rejecting the message should alert the user that something is wrong.  Most 
MUAs will say hey! they didn't take my mail! and only outlook won't tell 
you why.

5xx Message rejected because of infection with Worm.YouSuck.Loser

-Jeremy

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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Steven Spence

Jeremy Kitchen wrote:

I wouldn't say never.  If you had authenticated SMTP set up you could
always send the notification back to the sender using the username
supplied during the SMTP authentication process.  After authentication
has succedeed of course. :)



rejecting the message should alert the user that something is wrong.  Most 
MUAs will say hey! they didn't take my mail! and only outlook won't tell 
you why.


5xx Message rejected because of infection with Worm.YouSuck.Loser



Well, rejecting a message does alert the user if the user is sitting behind
their mail client that sent it.  Most viruses have their own engines to
send out copies of itself.  While the 5xx response message is still sent
back it never makes it to the person using the computer to make them
aware of the rejection.

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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Friday 06 January 2006 10:35, Steven Spence wrote:
 Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
 I wouldn't say never.  If you had authenticated SMTP set up you could
 always send the notification back to the sender using the username
 supplied during the SMTP authentication process.  After authentication
 has succedeed of course. :)
 
  rejecting the message should alert the user that something is wrong. 
  Most MUAs will say hey! they didn't take my mail! and only outlook
  won't tell you why.
 
  5xx Message rejected because of infection with Worm.YouSuck.Loser

 Well, rejecting a message does alert the user if the user is sitting behind
 their mail client that sent it.  Most viruses have their own engines to
 send out copies of itself.  While the 5xx response message is still sent
 back it never makes it to the person using the computer to make them
 aware of the rejection.

that's why you also have a log watcher on your SMTP logs that checks if one of 
your own users is attempting to send viruses.  You then match up their IP 
address and the timestamp with the radius logs (assuming a dialup ISP) and 
pick up the telephone.

-Jeremy

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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread Jay Lee

Steven Spence wrote:

Jeremy Kitchen wrote:


I wouldn't say never.  If you had authenticated SMTP set up you could
always send the notification back to the sender using the username
supplied during the SMTP authentication process.  After authentication
has succedeed of course. :)




rejecting the message should alert the user that something is wrong.  
Most MUAs will say hey! they didn't take my mail! and only outlook 
won't tell you why.


5xx Message rejected because of infection with Worm.YouSuck.Loser



Well, rejecting a message does alert the user if the user is sitting behind
their mail client that sent it.  Most viruses have their own engines to
send out copies of itself.  While the 5xx response message is still sent
back it never makes it to the person using the computer to make them
aware of the rejection.


Out of curiousity, has anyone (recently) experienced a situation where a 
real user was attempting to send out an email with an attachment that 
contained a virus?  I can't say that I have.  In any case, I'm quite 
certain that 99.999% of all virus email on the net today is generated by 
existing viruses and not legit users who accidently attach a virus.


Jay
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Re: [Clamav-users] RE: Report infected mail to the user

2006-01-06 Thread John W. Baxter
On 1/6/06 11:40 AM, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I agree with this almost entirely.  You should absolutely try to 5xx refuse
 known-malicious email traffic, or if you have to accept it, silently file it
 away in a quarantine area for a knowledgeable human to review questionable
 cases, without generating additional email traffic.
 
 But you shouldn't discard a message you've 2xx accepted unless you are
 positive it is malicious.

And the law under which the server is being operated matters too.  Given a
legal requirement to deliver all mail the server has accepted if it is
technologically possible to do so, would delivery into a quarantine area
accessible to the recipient count as delivery?

I think it should, but I'm not a German prosecutor.

  --John (also not a non-German prosecutor)


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