From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 27 14: 7:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F7C637B416 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:07:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (win.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fARM7Ts00545; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:07:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <014f01c1778f$eb5c7be0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Jae Carlson" , "freebsd-questions" References: <008501c1776c$3b364430$010aa8c0@my.net> Subject: Re: Bad e-mail addiess Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:07:28 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a simpler solution: I've just set up my e-mail client to route all messages above 15 KB in size to a special folder, where I can examine them later. The very vast majority of legitimate e-mails are small and contain only text, and easily escape this filter, whereas e-mails with dangerous attachments are trapped by it. Periodically I look at the folder, and if I see a message that looks suspicious, I examine the raw message content before opening it, to see what it contains (on Outlook Express, you can right-click, then Properties, then Details, then Message source to see the actual content of the message without officially opening it--this does not execute anything the message might contain). There's no point in filtering specific senders because very often they are not aware that they have a virus sending e-mails on their behalf, and in any case, it often sends a virus to a given recipient just once. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jae Carlson" To: "freebsd-questions" Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 18:52 Subject: Bad e-mail addiess > warning if you get mail from these people do not open contains viruses > > _philippe.rambour@pixelsystems.fr > "_hcch314"@cse.unsw.edu.au > _azdolls@earthlink.net > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message