Re: [Exim] bugbear worm]

On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 02:41, Nico Erfurth wrote:
> IMHO one should use a virus-scanner to catch viruses, a systemfilter is
> not the right thing, especially not if it's such easy builded as yours.

The numpties here do, however considering antivirus software is as
useful as tits on a bull, extra precautions need to be taken. In this
case if they didnt update the day before they would have got infected
with bugbear.

You might also take a lesson in design, simple solutions are typicaly
more efficetive than complicated ones. Here in Australia we call it the
KISS principle, Keep It Simple Stupid Virus signatures are a stupid way
to stop the things coming in on emails, every new virus or new varuant
gets straight past those who havent updated. Through good policy, we've
had zero infections over a number of locations.

The whole antivirus industry is a bit of a sham, why do you think people
still get hit. It the vendors actualy made a product that worked then
who would need to pay them annual update subscriptions?

> It should be a little bit more specific and at least filter for
> Content-type: audio/x-FILTERPROOF ;)-midi;

You know of any regular user who would include that string in their
email?

> with your current filter you shouldn't even receive your own mail you
> sent to the exim-list ;)

I have linux hence I dont need to use it.


Point taken though, the filter it is quite simplistic, however im not
prepared to take any chances here. ;)

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