This may appear unrelated at first glance. Please read entirety before blasting me. :)
All: In light of the latest run of hacks, cracks, Trojans and virii, I strongly urge everyone to start blocking the following files from email: *.asp *.bat *.cmd *.com *.inf *.ins *.pif *.reg *.scr *.shs *.vb *.vbs GTA: Do any of the current products have the ability to block attachments with the ability to set programmable criteria for the blocks? Perhaps this could be provided in the next release - working with the mail proxy feature. I feel it is time for the firewall industry to step up to the plate as this latest batch of trash is intended to bypass such security measures. It would be nice if I could tell exec staff that my choice of f/w was the first to offer this ability. I fortunately have these blocked (and more, via third party proxy) and the only system I saw compromised was a laptop connected into the AT&T global dial-up service while traveling (started with "blaster" then http proxy, "hacktool"...). They forgot to update their A.V. and had reset their admin password to "enter"! Regards, Danny -----Original Message----- From: Phil Dye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gb-users] relays.osirusoft.com [I know this isn't stricly GnatBox-related, but since the GB provides RBL features which many of use, I figure it's kinda relevant] The relays.osirusoft.com RBL is no more :( IMPORTANT: This means that if you are using it in your RBL configuration with the GnatBox email proxy, you will already, or very shortly, stop receiving _all_ email. As of earlier today, in a largely unannounced move, relays.osirusoft.com is returning a *positive* hit for all referrals. This will have the effect of making the email proxy (or similar configurations with postfix/Sendmail/qmail/etc) refuse all email as though it were spam, with a log message of "Please stop using relays.osirusoft.com". If you want all the gory detail, head over to news://news.admin.net-abuse.email/, but be prepared for a *long* read. -- Phil Dye, Technical Services Manager A L C H E M Y D I G I T A L Tel: +44 (0)23 8021 3400 http://www.alchemydigital.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
