Re: [Exim] bouncing viruses

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Auteur: Tony Earnshaw
Date: 2003-02-17 16:12 -000
À: Exim Users Mailing List
Sujet: Re: [Exim] bouncing viruses
man, 2003-02-17 kl. 15:08 skrev Greg A. Woods:

> Personally though I'd recommend just getting rid of all software that's
> known to be vulnerable to such junk and then you can just deliver all
> the e-mail without even having to scan it first. Friends don't allow
> their good friends to run M$ software. There are lots of better
> alternatives. Keeping your users well aware of all security issues is
> also a really good idea (which reporting infected messages helps to do,
> but is far from being the only thing you should be doing to inform
> them).


The last I heard, X-based systems aren't immune to nasties, either -
.png files with buffer-overflow payloads, etc. Hope that no-one has got
it into their heads that it's only MS that's susceptible to nasties.

As platforms such as Gnome and KDE become more widespread (and that's
happening at an exponential rate), healthy paranoia (oxymoron) should be
encouraged among all Unix/Linux sysadmins.

Best,

Tony

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Tony Earnshaw

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