On Thursday, August 21, 2003, 21:40:27, daniel hahler wrote:

> Mine does, so I scan for this. It's also a good idea to delete the
> mail from the server.

Be careful, there are actual anti-virus programs which add that header to
real messages...

> Don't know, if the "(see the attached file for details)" part is in
> every mail, but for me it is.

Sobig.F uses the following two strings in the body, so it's more reliable to
filter on them:

 See the attached file for details
 Please see the attached file for details.

> From now on there are only the virus-alerts at mails, that were
> spoofed with my adress.. "Mailbox quota exceeded" are also rising.. :/
> but somehow GMX or someone else has done sth, as I didn't get any new
> the last hour..?!

I'm much more annoyed by the stupid antivirus auto-responders which have
flooded my mailbox. Here's my filter-in-progress which responds to those
messages and moves them out of the way:

========8<--------------------------------------------------------------
BeginFilter
Name: Anti-Antivirus
Active: 1
Source: \\Jernej Simončič\Inbox
Target: \\Jernej Simončič\Inbox\AV
CopyFolder: \\\\none
MainSet: 30because contains an infected object.
MainSet: 01arnes.si
AltSet:1: 30that was infected with 
AltSet:1: 30a known virus.
AltSet:1: 01arnes.si
AltSet:2: 30Problem: Virus found
AltSet:2: 01arnes.si
AltSet:3: 20Virus Alert
AltSet:3: 01arnes.si
AltSet:4: 20InterScan NT Alert
AltSet:4: 01arnes.si
AltSet:5: 30sent to the recipients listed above was
AltSet:5: 30infected with 
AltSet:5: 01arnes.si
AltSet:6: 20Virus found 
AltSet:6: 01arnes.si
AltSet:7: 30This e-mail appears to contain a virus.
AltSet:7: 01arnes.si
AltSet:8: 30has been found to contain a virus
AltSet:8: 01arnes.si
AltSet:9: 30The Illegal attachment type was reported to be:
AltSet:9: 30VirusMail
AltSet:9: 01arnes.si
AltSet:10: 20VIRUS IN YOUR MAIL
AltSet:10: 01arnes.si
AltSet:11: 30contained the virus
AltSet:11: 01arnes.si
AltSet:12: 20Norton AntiVirus detected a virus in a message you sent
AltSet:12: 01arnes.si
AltSet:13: 20Norton AntiVirus detected and quarantined a virus
AltSet:13: 01arnes.si
AltSet:14: 20Virus Detected
AltSet:14: 40From:
AltSet:14: 01arnes.si
AltSet:15: 20Virus Detected
AltSet:15: 40Reply-To:
AltSet:15: 01arnes.si
AltSet:16: 30above was infected with the
AltSet:16: 01arnes.si
AltSet:17: 30ANTIVIRUS SYSTEM FOUND VIRUSES
AltSet:17: 01arnes.si
Actions: faAutoReply
AddGroups: 
DelGroups: 
ForwardTemplate: 
ConfirmTemplate: 
ReplyTemplate: 
Stop\20flooding\20me\20with\20your\20messages,\20I\20have\20no\20viruses.\20It\27s\20widely\20known\0D\0Athat\20Sobig.F\20&\20co\20use\20random\20e-mails\20in\20the\20From\20field.\20This\20is\20an\20automatic\0D\0Areply.\0D\0A\0D\0A%Quotes\0D\0A
FwdAddr: 
RedirectAddr: 
NewAddr: 
NewTemplate: 
ExtCmd: 
ExtFile: 
ExtractDir: 
ColourGroup: <default>
AddAddrItems: afiFrom,
DelAddrItems: afiFrom,
HotKey: 0
IsOfColour: <default>
SizeBigger: 0
SizeSmaller: 0
AgeOlder: 0
AgeNewer: 0
InAddrPos: 0
OutAddrPos: 0
InAddrGroups: 
NoAddrGroups: 
KillFile: 
KillMethod: 0
SaveTemplate: 
SndFile: 
SysSound: 0
SoundTime: 0:00-0:00
AllowTime: 0:00-0:00
EndFilter
========8<--------------------------------------------------------------

(replace arnes.si with your own e-mail domain, since some idiotic
autoresponses contain your provider's postmaster address instead of their).


-- 
Jernej Simoncic, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/
http://deepthought.ena.si/

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