Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:20:18 -0800 From: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SPAM/virii apparently from freeBSD addresses. Message-ID: <20040301102018.397d6095.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <404369E3.2060102@energyhq.es.eu.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0402291639340.27862-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <404369E3.2060102@energyhq.es.eu.org>
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On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 17:50:43 +0100 Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> wrote: > Moving to chat: > > Julian Elischer wrote: > > Somewhere out there there is a ?Virus?/?Hacker?/?Spammer? > > getting really annoying.. > > It's been quite common for some time for worms/viruses du jour to fake > from/to. Not that it's not annoying. Two meassures that IMHO could > help a bit could be: > > a) Most people started gpg-signing e-mail by default. (Some FreeBSD > committers already do that) > > b) FreeBSD.org could publish spf records like some people are already > doing (.e.g. grog@ does and some others) > > c) For those running pf, block on $ext_if from any os "Windows" to > $ext_ip port = 25 ;-) Surely another (small) thing that could be done would be to make the mailing lists not accept mail from each other. e.g. recently I've seen messages of the form "from: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org to: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org". > Cheers, > -- > Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> > http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org > PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1 -Chris
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