On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 08:55:41 -0400, Doug Straight scribbled down: > We had an event on Saturday where all 8,000 members got an infected email > from the list. It looked just like the newsletter we sent out in most cases > but some members wrote back telling us they had the "Find the White Rabbit" > message, and were told by Norton that they had a Beagle variant M infected > email from us. > > I'd love to hear your ideas on this as it is quite a concern.
The best defense against virii-laden mail is to pass your mailing list mail through a virus scanning engine of some kind. In my case, all mail to Mailman gets passed through amavisd-new, which I can heartily recommend. The forgery of headers is best handled at the MTA level, anti-spam technology such as SPF et al are designed to combat this. HTH -- -jamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | spamtrap: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: http://www.silverdream.org | p: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp key @ http://silverdream.org/~jps/pub.key 04:30:01 up 1 day, 5:34, 9 users, load average: 0.31, 0.26, 0.20 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
