Hi Robert!
Excuse my ignorance on the maintainance of distribution lists, but why not
just reject submissions with attachments that match the pattern *.EXE?
Thats the first idea I've seen that I'd agree with. Much as I dislike
Outlook, I used to like it, I suspect many people still do, and
on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 08:30:18PM -0900, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:20:54PM -0700, John Galt wrote:
I've started to get lazy and use an RSA authenticated ssh
connection--saves me typing my password...
actually RSA is a better way to go, you
From: Vijay Prabakaran [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list
Yes. Good point. What are people using M$ apps on
Windoze doing on this list anyway.
Vijay,
Occasionally my Linux box will be down when my Windoze box is up
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:27:46PM -0800, Vijay Prabakaran wrote:
Well I guess some people just have to use windoze. So
but they DON'T have to use Outlook, if its a corporate mandate you
probably shouldn't even be using corporate mail services for
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
I would be OK with blocking MS Outhouse, but not Windoze
mail clients in general. Some of us have to use that 'OS'
at work, and those of us with any sense use Netscape or
Eudora (Eudora doesn't work on NT4.0, so it's Netscape in
my case).
David Teague wrote:
However, the suggestion that we use Eudora is probably the correct
thing for any of us that are required use Lose 9x to do. Is that
still free? I remember a freeware 16 bit version I used with MS Lose
3.1. Is it still available?
The old free version was a lite version.
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 09:19, David Teague wrote:
However, the suggestion that we use Eudora is probably the correct
thing for any of us that are required use Lose 9x to do. Is that
still free? I remember a freeware 16 bit version I used with MS Lose
3.1. Is it still available?
They
On Wednesday 15 November 2000 10:24, David Teague wrote:
MIS managers have a LOT of power. They frequently prohibit
installation of any software by users. AND they are NOT always
prohibited from use of the company systems to mail this list.
Let's not be quite so tough on them.
There are
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:59:35PM -0500, Mike wrote:
In case no one has noticed yet, there are a bunch of virus infected messages
coming through here on the debian-users list. For information on this
virus, go to:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.navidad.html
Those of us
Yes. Good point. What are people using M$ apps on
Windoze doing on this list anyway.
Vijay.
--- Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:59:35PM -0500, Mike
wrote:
In case no one has noticed yet, there are a bunch
of virus infected messages
coming through here on
Ethan Benson wrote:
I hearby propose that the list automatically reject all postings that
appear to have been sent using MS Outlook. this way this garbage
won't happen each and every time ya new Outlook worm comes out.
Please bear in mind that this list is for debian users, and that
includes
At work using the computer their employers provided?
At 10:39 PM 11/13/2000 -0800, Vijay Prabakaran wrote:
Yes. Good point. What are people using M$ apps on
Windoze doing on this list anyway.
Vijay.
--- Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:59:35PM -0500, Mike
I would be OK with blocking MS Outhouse, but not Windoze
mail clients in general. Some of us have to use that 'OS'
at work, and those of us with any sense use Netscape or
Eudora (Eudora doesn't work on NT4.0, so it's Netscape in
my case).
Vijay Prabakaran wrote:
Yes. Good point. What are people
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 10:57:10PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
Ethan Benson wrote:
I hearby propose that the list automatically reject all postings that
appear to have been sent using MS Outlook. this way this garbage
won't happen each and every time ya new Outlook worm comes out.
Please
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 08:15:52AM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
I would be OK with blocking MS Outhouse, but not Windoze
mail clients in general. Some of us have to use that 'OS'
at work, and those of us with any sense use Netscape or
Eudora (Eudora doesn't work on NT4.0, so it's
Well I guess some people just have to use windoze. So
isn't it possible to filter out all messages with .exe
files, word documents, excel docs etc from the list.
These would be the main problem causing stuff.
Vijay.
--- Peter Hugosson-Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would be OK with blocking
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 23:59:35 -0500, Mike said:
In case no one has noticed yet, there are a bunch of virus infected messages
coming through here on the debian-users list. For information on this
virus, go to:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.navidad.html
Those of us
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:27:46PM -0800, Vijay Prabakaran wrote:
Well I guess some people just have to use windoze. So
but they DON'T have to use Outlook, if its a corporate mandate you
probably shouldn't even be using corporate mail services for personal
mail anyway, doing so will likely get
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hearby propose that the list automatically reject all postings that
appear to have been sent using MS Outlook. this way this garbage
won't happen each and every time ya new Outlook worm comes out.
I hereby propose we don't. This stuff doesn't harm us, and
Colin Watson wrote:
I hearby propose that the list automatically reject all postings
that appear to have been sent using MS Outlook. this way this
garbage won't happen each and every time ya new Outlook worm comes
out.
I hereby propose we don't. This stuff doesn't harm us, and Outlook
on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:08:02AM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I remember when I had to use Exchange at work[1] once ... yuck. We
weren't allowed to install anything else. Fortunately I worked out how
to get telnet sessions out through the firewall reasonably quickly, and
On Tuesday 14 November 2000 01:15, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
I would be OK with blocking MS Outhouse, but not Windoze
mail clients in general. Some of us have to use that 'OS'
at work, and those of us with any sense use Netscape or
Eudora (Eudora doesn't work on NT4.0, so it's Netscape in
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:08:02AM +, Colin Watson
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I remember when I had to use Exchange at work[1] once ... yuck. We
weren't allowed to install anything else. Fortunately I worked out how
to get telnet sessions out through the firewall
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 09:11:26PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
I hearby propose that the list automatically reject all postings that
appear to have been sent using MS Outlook. this way this garbage
won't happen each and every time ya new Outlook worm comes out.
I agree, 400+ emails is
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:08:02AM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I remember when I had to use Exchange at work[1] once ... yuck. We
weren't allowed to install anything else. Fortunately I worked out how
to get telnet
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:20:54PM -0700, John Galt wrote:
I've started to get lazy and use an RSA authenticated ssh
connection--saves me typing my password...
actually RSA is a better way to go, you should encrypt the key and use
ssh-agent, still saves you from typing the passwd (all but
In case no one has noticed yet, there are a bunch of virus infected messages
coming through here on the debian-users list. For information on this
virus, go to:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.navidad.html
Those of us using Linux for email have nothing to worry about (of course).
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