[PD] What I know about this f****ing worm

[Norbert Math]

hallo christian,

ich ueberlege gerade einen virenfilter in die 
pd liste einzubauen - ich denke an f-prot und amavis fuer
den exim mta.

womit has du deine (offenbar schlechten?) erfahrungen gemacht?

ich dachte ich setz den filter ausschliesslich fuer die pd mailing liste
ein und lasse die eingehenden mails scannen bevor sie verteilt werden.

also ca. 10 - 20 mails am tag, das sollte der rechner schaffen.
(mehr kostet allerdings mein arbeitsaufwand)

das ganze macht zwar fuer die outlook luser das leben nicht sicherer
aber wenigstens kommen dann keine ungewollten mails ueber die liste.

norbert

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On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Christian Klippel wrote:

> hi yves, hi list,
> 
> sorry for that small off-topic posting.
> yes. there is a new worm on its way, my server already struggled
> from that in the past two days.
> i for myself will block any outlook mails in the future on my server.
> _before_ they are transfered, to save bandwidth. (simply checking
> the header for "Outlook" and "X-MSMail")
> maybe the listadmin here has a similar intention ?? if so, feel free to
> contact me about that.
> its a crude and draconian method, i know, but hey, there are tons
> of other mailers for win out there, that doesnt spread worms and virii.
> and upgrading a mail server to scan all mails comming in means spending
> huge amount of $$$ just because of crappy software out there. this cant 
> be the solution. i tried it, and my experience say, that you need at least
> 4 times the cpu and ram power as normal if you want to scan all mails.
> (you have to load and run the antivir-proggy for _each_ mail, and imagine
> there are suddenly 100 mails at once ... so you need to load the av soft
> 100 times, too !)
> 
> greets,
> 
> chris