Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:58:06 +0100 (CET) From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: postmaster@daimi.au.dk Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VIRUS IN YOUR MAIL Message-ID: <20011029165515.L869-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> In-Reply-To: <200110291510.f9TFAuo25848@horse10.daimi.au.dk>
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 postmaster@daimi.au.dk wrote: > V I R U S A L E R T > > Our viruschecker found the > > 'W32/Klez' > > virus(es) in your email to the following recipient(s): > > -> <FARRET@DAIMI.AU.DK> This is probably (no, definately!) off-topic, but I have seen these damn eMail virus scanners running havoc several times. If a virus gets send to a crowsed mailing lists, such warnings as the one above can occur *in the hundreds* (yes, I have counted). taking that into account, I thought that eMail worms were so bad because when they spread themselves, they caused a lot of network badwith to be used. Now, I wonder if there's any difference in the badwidth being used by the worm virus/worm spreading, or by the virus scanners sending out their warning messages... Greetings Nils Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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