Re: [ILUG] Basic virus protection

From: Lars Hecking (lhecking at domain nmrc.ucc.ie)
Date: Thu 04 May 2000 - 13:47:41 IST


John Kelly writes:
> For a simple (all meanings of the word) fix to protect your mail server from
> the virus, go to
>
> http://www2.sendmail.com/alert/melissa/
>
> Just change the string it searches the subject for to read ILOVEYOU.
> This'll only last as long as it takes for someone to modify the script, but
> at least by then you should have had time to recover.
 
 Better (shameless plug alert):

 buy a virus checker (such as Sophos, McAfee, whatever)
 install postfix
 read http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/postfix0004/183.html

 (yes, I'd like to see some more widespread testing before we release
  amavis-perl-6 :)



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