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From: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
To: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
Cc: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: ATTACK TO MY SYSTEM
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:50:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030923115039.A30231@animx.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1064328224.1995.236.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov>; from Steven Cole on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:43:44AM -0600

> First, apologies to all since this is technically offtopic, but there
> does seem to be enough interest in this subject that I'll provide a
> short answer here.

Hate to keep it going, but...

> The problem with the W32.Swen.A@mm worm/virus  became severe enough that
> my home account on 56k dialup was almost unusable.  I've been getting
> hundreds of these large emails per day for the past several days, and
> the problem seems to be getting worse, not better.

I'm running my own mailserver and it's hard not to accept it.  I have
basically done checks in the from and to headers.  If it appears as a virus,
i lockout the smtp sender.  It's not permenant.  When the virus stops, i
unblock every one.

-- 
 Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-23 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-23  9:12 german aracil boned
2003-09-23 10:01 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-09-23 12:01   ` Jan Evert van Grootheest
2003-09-23 12:17     ` [OFFTOPIC] " Russell King
2003-09-23 12:38       ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-23 13:43         ` iptables kernel german aracil boned
2003-09-23 12:55       ` [OFFTOPIC] Re: ATTACK TO MY SYSTEM Maciej Soltysiak
2003-09-23 13:41         ` jw schultz
2003-09-23 16:36         ` Gerhard Mack
2003-09-23 16:44           ` Maciej Soltysiak
2003-09-23 12:50   ` Breno
2003-09-23 13:40   ` J.A. Magallon
2003-09-23 14:43     ` [OT] " Steven Cole
2003-09-23 15:50       ` Wakko Warner [this message]
2003-09-23 19:24         ` Wade
2003-09-23 20:06         ` Willy Tarreau
2003-09-24  7:40 John Bradford
2003-09-24  8:46 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-09-24  8:59   ` Jörn Engel

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