From owner-freebsd-security Fri Nov 3 11: 0:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nettoll.com (unknown [212.155.143.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C9037B4CF for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 11:00:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by smtp.nettoll.com; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 19:58:30 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <4.3.0.20001103195515.03676320@pop.free.fr> X-Sender: usebsd@pop.free.fr X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 20:00:48 +0100 To: Brett Glass , Alex Koshterek , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG From: mouss Subject: Re: DOMEO.JPG.vbs In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001103100000.0479f360@localhost> References: <00110309132801.45865@pro.lookanswer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Also note that while I don't care receiving those vbs things, it's quite annoying, frustrating, ... to receive hundreds of messages saying a virus was found:) That reminds me of something I've seen some weeks before: a guy sent a mail to a lot of his contacts. that was probably a love virus sending itself to all the guys contacts. the guy MTA found the virus: that's good. but the reaction was sending a message to all the recipients stating that they should ask the sender to resend his message without the viurs!!!! not only is this stupid and illogical, but it gives to all the recipients the list of contacts of the sender. At 10:01 03/11/00 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: >It's better to install decent malware protection rather than >trying to block individual addresses -- which are unlikely to >send malware more than once. See > >http://www.brettglass.com/spam/paper.html > >--Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message