On Thursday, August 21, 2003, 7:52:46 AM, Peter MacGregor commented: PM> Those of us on stand-alones and who are self-employed in our wind-swept PM> garrets have to deal with it ourselves and try and meet deadlines for that PM> world-beating project that will make us rich enough to employ an IT Manager PM> to keep this rubbish at bay for us! (grin)!
Peter, I'm seeing it too, but I haven't seen a single one actually make it as far as my email program. Mail via my website accounts is blocked entirely with a procmail recipe that stops any email with suspect attachments - so Sobig.F never stood a chance. I run Mailwasher before downloading email and it also has correctly tagged every instance of Sobig as either spam or a virus - it's a quick glance and then I delete them all. What has actually been a bigger problem for me is the bounce messages. I checked the logs of what was being blocked on my server yesterday and there were about 20 messages in 20 minutes, with 19 of them being bounce messages. So, the bigger part of the problem isn't the virus itself, but servers that bounce it back, many of which send back the attachment. So the autoresponders and bounce messages actually are spreading the virus at least 10x-20x faster than the virus is spreading itself, since the "from" address receiving the bounce is never the originator of the message. Anyway, I think a big part of the problem would be dealt with if the ISPs and networks would simply TRASH email found to have a virus rather than sending it to the address in the "From" field. Nothing gets past Mailwasher, but many of the bounce messages do get past my procmail filter - it depends on whether they return the attachment or a message with full headers (blocked), or just a notification (not blocked). -Abigail ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
