From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 6 21:53: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (pcc14.pwtc.jaring.my [202.186.142.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB8FF37B4C5 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 21:52:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id eA53GGC00946; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 14:16:16 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 14:16:16 +1100 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jusitn W. Pauler" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recent Virus Attacks Message-ID: <20001105141616.L307@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <5.0.0.25.2.20001102223629.009db870@mail> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20001102223629.009db870@mail>; from jwpauler@jwpages.com on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:39:16PM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 2 November 2000 at 22:39:16 -0600, Jusitn W. Pauler wrote: ^^^^^^ Really? > X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 > As with the recent spam of the FreeBSD lists with the virus spam, > can someone provide a simple solution to block out these and other > viruses? In my case, my FreeBSD box is a network gateway and server > to my LAN. Yes, use a FreeBSD-based MUA. No known "virus" can affect it. > I use fetchmail to download mail to sendmail and cucipop to allow me > to grab it from my windows box. If I'm not mistaken, both of these programs send your passwords in the clear. Not a good idea. > I understand that there are some ways to implement some security in > sendmail, I am just not sure how to fully block it. There's no 100% safe way of deciding what the content of a message is. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message