Re: [michellh@LinuxMall.com: Re: [seul-edu] I love progress]

[jherazo@geocities.com]

> Now, the point of the virus is that it spreads via people *reading* it,
> so if people sent mail from an infected windows machine to an infected
> windows machine, via a seul.org address, then it could still spread.
> There's nothing magical about Linux such that it strips the virus out.


Yes, there`s something magical:

http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/11/01/909922332.html

These are procmail recipes to "sanitize" all the mail that passes through the
mailserver, so when the next candidate to "virus of the week" shows up, your
users just sit back and see the trouble they`re NOT having (basically all the
attachments with dangerous extensions are renamed, rendering them powerless
unless your user saves them, renames them back to normal and executes them, but
then again there`s no hope in that case except trepanation :)


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Jaime Herazo B.
E-Mail: jherazo@geocities.com
Date: 07-May-00
Time: 20:48:53

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