[wplug] email viruses

[Mike Griffin]

Most of the email has been addressed to email addresses that do not 
exist ('whatever'@dmrnetworks.com)  everything the server finds as 
virus/spam gets sent to my spammail account.

spamassassin/razor does a good job of filtering out the forged email.


Mike


On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 12:17  PM, Tim Lesher wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:25:10AM -0400, Chris wrote:
>> I believe that the MS Blaster Worm uses port 135.  If that's the 
>> case, you
>> don't have to worry about your linux machines.  I really haven't 
>> noticed
>> anything this morning.  Do you have use the qmail-smtpd-viruscan 
>> patch?  It
>> bounces most emails that have a virus attached to them.
>
> I hope you don't mean "bounce" in the usual way, i.e., bounces back to
> the sender address.  This would be very bad, since many spams lately
> have been using a legit, but forged, email address.
> -- 
> Tim Lesher <tim at lesher.ws>
> http://www.lesher.ws
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