Re: Virus Emails

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Virus Emails
Date: 2002-07-30 16:26:46
Message-ID: 20020730132617.F61995-100000@mail1.hub.org
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figured it out ... uvscan isn't looking where ports installed the newer
.dat files ... fixed that and it finds 63 virii infected files instead of
just 5 :)

one step closer ...

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
>
> Okay, am playing with this on one of my 'none-critical' servers right now
> ... tried to use uvscan from teh command line, and it didn't appear to
> pick up any of the Klez stuff, even though I know I have a few in my
> mailbox ...
>
> What options should I be running as? I'm using the following:
>
> uvscan --analyse --recursive --mime --summary --program /var/spool/mail
>
> On 28 Jul 2002, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 20:10, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > >
> > > God, I go through 200+ of those almost daily as moderator ... imagine if
> > > we had the lists open? :)
> > I picked up a copy of McAfee's vscan for FreeBSD from one of my contract
> > people, and have amavisd-milter running to prevent them from even
> > getting in the door.
> >
> > Mayhaps pgsql.org should do the same?
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi guys,
> > > >
> > > > I seem to be getting virus emails that pretend to be one of your guys. eg.
> > > > I get them from T.Ishii and N.Conway, etc. Anyone out there on the list who
> > > > should perhaps scan their computer? :)
> > > >
> > > > Chris
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > >
> > > > http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
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> > >
> > --
> > Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
> > Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler(at)lerctr(dot)org
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> >
> >
>
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