From owner-freebsd-security Mon Oct 29 7:58: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from logicalhost.com (logicalhost.com [63.169.206.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC3AB37B403 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 07:57:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from colt.ncptiddische.net (ppp-218.wobline.de [212.68.69.229]) by logicalhost.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9TG0BV96686; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 11:00:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from jodie.ncptiddische.net (jodie.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.2]) by colt.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9TFxd008366; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:59:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Received: from jodie.ncptiddische.net (jodie.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.2]) by jodie.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9TFw6f00906; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:58:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:58:06 +0100 (CET) From: Nils Holland To: postmaster@daimi.au.dk Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VIRUS IN YOUR MAIL In-Reply-To: <200110291510.f9TFAuo25848@horse10.daimi.au.dk> Message-ID: <20011029165515.L869-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 postmaster@daimi.au.dk wrote: > V I R U S A L E R T > > Our viruschecker found the > > 'W32/Klez' > > virus(es) in your email to the following recipient(s): > > -> This is probably (no, definately!) off-topic, but I have seen these damn eMail virus scanners running havoc several times. If a virus gets send to a crowsed mailing lists, such warnings as the one above can occur *in the hundreds* (yes, I have counted). taking that into account, I thought that eMail worms were so bad because when they spread themselves, they caused a lot of network badwith to be used. Now, I wonder if there's any difference in the badwidth being used by the worm virus/worm spreading, or by the virus scanners sending out their warning messages... Greetings Nils Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message