From owner-freebsd-security Thu Nov 2 2:53:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.oblivion.bg (beleriand.online.bg [195.138.137.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F67737B4E5 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 02:53:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3237 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Nov 2000 10:52:50 -0000 Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 12:52:50 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: Erwan Arzur Cc: security@freebsd.org, postmaster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VIRUS WARNING Message-ID: <20001102125250.A2807@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Erwan Arzur , security@freebsd.org, postmaster@freebsd.org References: <200011020836.eA28al622586@madli.ut.ee> <3A013395.A904976A@netvalue.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A013395.A904976A@netvalue.com>; from erwan@netvalue.com on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 05:27:49PM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 05:27:49PM +0800, Erwan Arzur wrote: > Can somebody block sunsite.aubi.de on hub.freebsd.org ? > > This crap is a real pain in the ass ! > > Who decided that those scanners should send virus alerts back to the > sender ? > How come this freebsdlist@aubi.de is not configured to avoid loops ? How is this a loop? The way I understand it, a loop is a message sent back to a list that the same message has already been sent to; in this case, a *reply* is sent to the list. And about the virus scanners - I'm afraid the damage is already done, and we'll see a lot more of it in the next day or so, as more people check their mail :( Unless someone goes for some real mail daemon hackery, and blocks all messages referring to the original message.. and all its replies.. but for some reason, I do not think this will happen :P G'luck, Peter -- If the meanings of 'true' and 'false' were switched, then this sentence wouldn't be false. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message