Re: [cobalt-users] ###!IMPORTANT! - virus warning - !IMPORTANT!###

["Daniel Pumphrey" <dpumphre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Take a look at the posts today (5/4/2000) at http://www.slashdot.org - there
are a couple of sendmail fixes where you can filter out by the subject
line - much like you talk about here for the NT Servers.  This link will get
you straight to the story:

http://slashdot.org/articles/00/05/04/0938227.shtml

Good Luck,
Daniel

----- Original Message -----
From: Franklin S. Werren <fswerren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] ###!IMPORTANT! - virus warning - !IMPORTANT!###


> Hi All
>
> On several of the NT type e-mail servers, (no yelling please) you can
filter
> out using the header of the e-mail.
> The ISP that host my domain has done that, but it will not work for Linux,
> Is there a way to filter out e-mails in a RAQ and RAQ3 ???
>
> All he added was ILOVEYOU and IL0VEYOU to the block, and did a search of
the
> e-mail directories looking for the tell tail text that was in this mail.
>
> Bingo! he deleted 53 messages from the NT mail server and saved alot of
> headaches for over 6000 users....
> With the block and the deletes he only had several calls about it... with
1
> infection so far.
>
> But the RAQ servers are still vunable to this nasty e-mail...
>
> Ideas ???
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
>
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