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Re: Nothing like viruses with bugs in them (Swen)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mr. James W. Laferriere)
Fri Sep 19 13:08:04 2003

Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:07:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <001101c37ecc$bd68dc60$e950b73f@2mbit.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


	Hello All ,

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Brian Bruns wrote:
> These are exim filters which catch the damn thing when the antivirus
> software misses it.  Hopefully it might be useful.  It was taken from
> http://pkierski.republika.pl/filtry.shtml.
...snipped nice exim filters...
	Is there an example of a procmail filter for this bugger ?
		Tia ,  JimL

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Radabaugh" <mark@amplex.net>
> To: <nanog@merit.edu>
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 12:03 PM
> Subject: Nothing like viruses with bugs in them (Swen)
> > Seems like this virus/worm has a bug where it will occasionally send out 1
> > byte attachments rather than the correct worm payload.   Since the virus
> is
> > not truly attached it tends to pass through e-mail virus scanners.
> > It's causing a fair amount of end user confusion today -- lots of 'why is
> > your/my virus scanner not working?' questions.
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