From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 22 08:33:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A222D16A4B3 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:33:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A60CD43FA3 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:33:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h8MFMWw23728; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:22:32 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: "vizion communication" , "Matthew Seaman" , "Timothy Luoma" Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:22:31 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20030921130948.GA49370@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <019f01c3811b$ba3b62a0$15b55042@vizion2000.net> In-Reply-To: <019f01c3811b$ba3b62a0$15b55042@vizion2000.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309220822.31758.kstewart@owt.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Someone on list with latest virus? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:33:09 -0000 On Monday 22 September 2003 08:10 am, vizion communication wrote: > I agree that a number of people on this list have been > affected by the virus and it is really helpful of you to > have posted to the list because those infected are sending > out huge volumes of emails to some of us on the list. > > I would recomend that everyone on this list checks their > system if it is vulnerable at the earliest opportunity and > remove the virus from their system. I am receiving over 100 > emails a day from infected systems. I agree and I am seeing similar quanties of virus infected emails. Since they are arriving from sites around the world, they have to be people on the FreeBSD lists. You can't do anything else and write all of their ISPs. The problem seem to be that a large number of people are using unpatched versions of Windows emailers. The fix to prevent infection by something as simple as previewing an email was made available at Microsoft's Windows update site (http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com) in 2001. Anyone with an infected computer can find disinfection instructions and a "Recovery" program at http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32gibef.html Matthew's comment about the infection rate at Symmantec still seems to be appropriate. I have logged more than 20 sites and I am only doing 1 in 30+ sampling. Kent > > David > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthew Seaman" > To: "Timothy Luoma" > Cc: ; > > Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 6:09 AM > Subject: Re: Someone on list with latest virus? > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html