Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 02 January 2005 20:01, SnapafunFrank wrote: What I had in mind is that a onboard mail client be established that would allow any email client to get the email via it, appoint klamav to check the email coming through and going out at this point - basically all email passes this

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-03 Thread SnapafunFrank
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2005 20:01, SnapafunFrank wrote: What I had in mind is that a onboard mail client be established that would allow any email client to get the email via it, appoint klamav to check the email coming through and going out at this point - basically all

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 03 January 2005 17:30, SnapafunFrank wrote: If you run a local copy of an MTA like Postfix, and route your ISP mail through that local MTA, you can push mail through a virus checker prior to local delivery. Exactly what I believe ought to be available always. Let the more

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread Graham Watkins
Anne Wilson wrote: I don't use Evo, but IIRC it uses mdir format, which means that each message is in a separate file (mbox puts a whole mail folder into one file). This being so, if you can identify which messages are the infected ones you can safely delete them, leaving all others.

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread Graham Watkins
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 01 January 2005 09:39, Graham Watkins wrote: Wish it were that simple. I'm not running a mail server with windows clients. This is a dual booting stand alone machine and I never use windows for downloading mail. (In fact I use it as little as possible.) Do the

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread Graham Watkins
deedee E wrote: I confess to some confusion about your problem. Is there some reason you are forced to execute the worm-infested e-mail while running Windows? Why not just treat it like junk mail and delete it? Isn't it junk mail? I'm not executing anything. I'm not doing anything with mail in

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 11:20, Graham Watkins wrote: .evolution/mail/local/Inbox: Worm.Bagle.AP FOUND .evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/Newbie: Worm.SomeFool.P FOUND (rest of scan snipped) --- SCAN SUMMARY --- Known viruses: 25253

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 11:43, Anne Wilson wrote: The viruses do not come in on genuine mail. The headers may suggest that they are from a reputable source, but they never are. Many are instantly recognisable as emails that you have not solicited.

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 13:42, Graham Watkins wrote: And it's a pity that no-one knows how to make klammail work properly because that looked like a pretty good way of dealing with infected mails. Why not try the kde mailing lists? I presume

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 02 January 2005 06:20, Graham Watkins wrote: Yes. I have copies of all three on my Linux system. I also do not use Windows for mail. You don't have to run windows to end up with your email address being used by someone else who does have Windows and who gets infected with a

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread M.Schild
On Sunday 02 January 2005 12:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: There are no dodgy files .exe, .com, .pif or otherwise. The problem there is that virus writers realise that we now recognise these, so they use a variety of tricks to hide the .exe or whatever.  I think it goes something like

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread SnapafunFrank
OK I have been following this thread to hopefully find a suitable way of appeasing those that call on me to help them with their SOHO setups. ( Myself included. ) How about we attack this problem by starting over so as to attempt to save relevant emails that the original poster is trying to

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread deedee E
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 11:20:43 +, Graham Watkins wrote: deedee E wrote: I confess to some confusion about your problem. Is there some reason you are forced to execute the worm-infested e-mail while running Windows? Why not just treat it like junk mail and delete it? Isn't it junk

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-01 Thread JR
Hi Graham, I have yet to install clam av, but I just wanted to point out that the viruses being detected are most likely windows viruses that would pass through a linux system without being able to cause any harm. The reason clam av detects these is because linux is often used as a mail

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-01 Thread Graham Watkins
JR wrote: Hi Graham, I have yet to install clam av, but I just wanted to point out that the viruses being detected are most likely windows viruses that would pass through a linux system without being able to cause any harm. The reason clam av detects these is because linux is often used as a

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-01 Thread Graham Watkins
Graham Watkins wrote: Do the names Worm.bagle.AP, Worm.Somefool.P, SCO.A mean anything here? As I mentioned, klamav claims to be able to quarantine messages containing viruses and worms but the component klammail doesn't seem to exist on my system - ideas, anyone? I've just done a search on

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-01 Thread JR
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Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-01 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 2:39 pm, Graham Watkins wrote: JR wrote: Hi Graham, I have yet to install clam av, but I just wanted to point out that the viruses being detected are most likely windows viruses that would pass through a linux system without being able to cause any harm.

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-01 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 15:33, Richard Urwin wrote: Wish it were that simple. I'm not running a mail server with windows clients. This is a dual booting stand alone machine and I never use windows for downloading mail. (In fact I use it as

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-01 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 01 January 2005 09:39, Graham Watkins wrote: Wish it were that simple. I'm not running a mail server with windows clients. This is a dual booting stand alone machine and I never use windows for downloading mail. (In fact I use it as little as possible.) Do the names

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-01 Thread deedee E
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 14:39:24 +, Graham Watkins wrote: Wish it were that simple. I'm not running a mail server with windows clients. This is a dual booting stand alone machine and I never use windows for downloading mail. (In fact I use it as little as possible.) I confess to some

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Scott
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: So zap them before they even hit your machine: Just found out how to set my server to return to sender all mails to unknown users. Not ideal but at least I am getting a bit of peace and quite again! :-) I'm not sure if you want to do that. If it's anything like

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-18 Thread J
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 6:48 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail According to the 'Received:' trace, the message originated at: [220.244.219.186] linux-mandrake.com (220-244-219-186-qld.tpgi.com.au [220.244.219.186]) I have gotten 3-4 from the same IP

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-17 Thread jdow
Glad I proved helpful once I had time to write an extended reply. {^_-} - Original Message - From: Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi OK I've read with interest some of your replies. It would seem that what I have actually been doing is rejecting any emails sent to me whereby

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-17 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 16 December 2004 23:27, jdow wrote: Humble (moi! humble?) request, please be careful with terminology, even if AOL and Microsoft are sloppy as hell. Bounce sends a message back to the purported sender, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rejects simply reject it from the server forwarding the email

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-17 Thread J
JoeHill wrote: Actually, I've found several times that AVG catches malware that Norton doesn't, and it's free, and got a *way* smaller footprint than Norton's bloatware. I use Avast! antivirus for Windoze. seems to be quicker than AVG, and it's free! They also offer a version for Linux

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-17 Thread J
JoeHill wrote Takes more time, but in the long run, if everyone did this, well, it would totally destroy the cost/benefit ratio for spammers. I do this religiously, using SpamCop... Trouble is, virtually all the pharmacy/porn sites are either on Brazilian or Chinese servers. they have abuse

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-17 Thread jdow
From: J [EMAIL PROTECTED] JoeHill wrote I have resorted to doing a WHOIS on the domain name, and if any info is found to be false, taking it up with the registrar... at least the site gets pulled, if only to pop up elsewhere a day or so later. Hey, Dude, where's your sense of fun? Every once

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-17 Thread J
a Chinese ISP, I get sorry, mailbox over quota Humph. JRH - Original Message - From: jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail From: J [EMAIL PROTECTED] JoeHill wrote I have resorted to doing a WHOIS

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-17 Thread Daniel Anderson
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 11:35 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 07:32:54PM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote: Is anybody else on this list getting bombarded with virus laden e-mail from a particular ip address in Australia? Whoever it is is sending to the address that I use for

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-17 Thread jdow
I figure the damage is already done by the time it gets to that mailbox over quota message. The Chinese government probably raises heck with the ISP Word is that they snoop EVERYTHING. {^_-} - Original Message - From: J [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey, Dude, where's your sense of fun? Every

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail (mailfilter)

2004-12-17 Thread Marek Pawinski
JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:32:49 + Inhabitant of Zion disseminated the following: I have set up so they all go straight to the trash but it sure is a pain in the neck as I am having to remove from the trash about 1800 every hour. So zap them before they even hit your machine:

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-17 Thread Eric Huff
According to the 'Received:' trace, the message originated at:   [220.244.219.186]   linux-mandrake.com (220-244-219-186-qld.tpgi.com.au [220.244.219.186]) I have gotten 3-4 from the same IP range, all tpgi.com.au. I usually warn users but no one ever pay attention so I figured I

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread paul martin
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Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
I do not get any that are not picked up by either my filters or clamav. They get picked up but I get an annoying message sent to me by Clamav saying a message with a virus was sent and has been quarantined. So I get a mail to me to delete and a .msg and a .log file to get rid of from the

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 16 Dec 2004 00:32, Greg Meyer wrote: Is anybody else on this list getting bombarded with virus laden e-mail from a particular ip address in Australia? Whoever it is is sending to the address that I use for the Mandrake lists, so I am

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 16 Dec 2004 07:29, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 07:27:02 + Inhabitant of Zion wrote: I have been getting a load from Germany and also a shed load yesterday from DHTMLcentral. I feel neglected and under

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 16 December 2004 00:14, Hugh Dixon wrote: What's the IP address? I fit the profile, and as our windows admin is not around, I cannot check the status of our antivirus software... According to the 'Received:' trace, the message originated at:   [220.244.219.186]  

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 02:29:41 -0500 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: I have been getting a load from Germany and also a shed load yesterday from DHTMLcentral. I feel neglected and under privileged. I do not get any that are not picked up by either my filters or clamav.

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread John Bowden
On Thursday 16 Dec 2004 14:37, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 02:29:41 -0500 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: I have been getting a load from Germany and also a shed load yesterday from DHTMLcentral. I feel neglected and under privileged. I do not get any that are

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:32:49 + Inhabitant of Zion disseminated the following: I have set up so they all go straight to the trash but it sure is a pain in the neck as I am having to remove from the trash about 1800 every hour. So zap them before they even hit your machine:

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
So zap them before they even hit your machine: Just found out how to set my server to return to sender all mails to unknown users. Not ideal but at least I am getting a bit of peace and quite again! :-) -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 16 December 2004 10:55, John Bowden wrote: Ok you have got me worried now !Is it a win virus or one writen for Linux? How do I check that clam is working and configure it. I have a smoothwall firewall so I don't worry too much about the worms and it's logs tell me if a trojan has

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:55:22 + John Bowden disseminated the following: Ok you have got me worried now !Is it a win virus or one writen for Linux? Guaranteed it's someone's Windows box has been zombied with a worm and is spewing this crap. As far as I know, there are *no* Linux viruses in

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 16 December 2004 05:46 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 16 December 2004 00:14, Hugh Dixon wrote: What's the IP address? I fit the profile, and as our windows admin is not around, I cannot check the status of our antivirus software... According to the 'Received:' trace,

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 11:32, Greg Meyer wrote: Is anybody else on this list getting bombarded with virus laden e-mail from a particular ip address in Australia? Whoever it is is sending to the address that I use for the Mandrake lists, so I am thinking it may be one of our newbie windows

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 15:35, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 07:32:54PM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote: Is anybody else on this list getting bombarded with virus laden e-mail from a particular ip address in Australia? Whoever it is is sending to the address that I use for the

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 02:55, John Bowden wrote: On Thursday 16 Dec 2004 14:37, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 02:29:41 -0500 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: I have been getting a load from Germany and also a shed load yesterday from DHTMLcentral. I feel

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 21:46, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 16 December 2004 00:14, Hugh Dixon wrote: What's the IP address? I fit the profile, and as our windows admin is not around, I cannot check the status of our antivirus software... According to the 'Received:' trace, the

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Yes, your MSN monicker is indeed correct. You are a sillydilly. Well OK then rather that telling me how stupid I am why not make some sort of constructive suggestion. I did a who-is search on host14-206.pool8172.interbusiness.it and got bugger all. Found out the IP to be 81.72.206.14 I

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:07:02 -0800 jdow disseminated the following: When I find some idiot doing this Okay, that was a little much...and I'm an expert on such things, ask anyone here! :-D -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:19:16 up 25 days, 10:30, 4 users, load average:

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread jdow
From: Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, your MSN monicker is indeed correct. You are a sillydilly. Well OK then rather that telling me how stupid I am why not make some sort of constructive suggestion. In a word: SpamAssassin {^_^}

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:14:56 + Inhabitant of Zion disseminated the following: I did a who-is search on host14-206.pool8172.interbusiness.it and got bugger all. Found out the IP to be 81.72.206.14 Do a whois on the IP :-) I tried - ipchains -A INPUT -s 81.72.206.14 -j DROP

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread mikkel
Yes, your MSN monicker is indeed correct. You are a sillydilly. Well OK then rather that telling me how stupid I am why not make some sort of constructive suggestion. I did a who-is search on host14-206.pool8172.interbusiness.it and got bugger all. Found out the IP to be 81.72.206.14

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 16 December 2004 20:09, JoeHill wrote: Ideally what I want to do is to get my server to just say Bog off when the delivery attempt is made. Well, AFAIK, the only way to do that is with a bounce, and there's the rub. Actually, not necessarily. In Postfix, if you setup to reject

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread jdow
From: JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ideally what I want to do is to get my server to just say Bog off when the delivery attempt is made. Well, AFAIK, the only way to do that is with a bounce, and there's the rub. When you bounce, you just doubled the 'damage' that the spam mail caused, and as

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread jdow
From: Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 16 December 2004 20:09, JoeHill wrote: Ideally what I want to do is to get my server to just say Bog off when the delivery attempt is made. Well, AFAIK, the only way to do that is with a bounce, and there's the rub. Actually, not

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Hi OK I've read with interest some of your replies. It would seem that what I have actually been doing is rejecting any emails sent to me whereby the user is not registered on my server. It would seem that the option in my server manager panel that handles postfix and that I thought was

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Its a windows virus - Zafi.D It seems it gets your address from somewhere and then starts sending you an email every 2 seconds. I have set up so they all go straight to the trash but it sure is a pain in the neck as I am having to remove from the trash about 1800 every hour. Glad I've got

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread John Bowden
On Thursday 16 Dec 2004 16:32, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi Its a windows virus - Zafi.D It seems it gets your address from somewhere and then starts sending you an email every 2 seconds. I have set up so they all go straight to the trash but it sure is a pain in the neck as I am having

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:25:38 + Inhabitant of Zion disseminated the following: So zap them before they even hit your machine: Just found out how to set my server to return to sender all mails to unknown users. Not ideal but at least I am getting a bit of peace and quite again!

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-16 Thread jdow
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] So zap them before they even hit your machine: Just found out how to set my server to return to sender all mails to unknown users. Not ideal but at least I am getting a bit of peace and quite again! :-) -- John Willby Registered Linux user number

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-15 Thread Dan Gordon
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 07:32 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: Is anybody else on this list getting bombarded with virus laden e-mail from a particular ip address in Australia? I got one a few hours ago, but so far just one and i thought it was addressed to the list. I did what I always do with

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-15 Thread jdow
From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is anybody else on this list getting bombarded with virus laden e-mail from a particular ip address in Australia? Whoever it is is sending to the address that I use for the Mandrake lists, so I am thinking it may be one of our newbie windows users. If you

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-15 Thread Dan Gordon
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 11:28 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: Oh yeah there is this new worm out was made just for Christmas. Sick bast**s Here is the link. http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/12/15/holiday.worm/index.html Regards, Dan Gordon -- Wed Dec 15 23:32:08 EST 2004 23:32:08 up

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-15 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 07:32:54PM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote: Is anybody else on this list getting bombarded with virus laden e-mail from a particular ip address in Australia? Whoever it is is sending to the address that I use for the Mandrake lists, so I am thinking it may be one of our

RE: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-15 Thread Hugh Dixon
What's the IP address? I fit the profile, and as our windows admin is not around, I cannot check the status of our antivirus software... hd -Original Message- From: Greg Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 16 December 2004 11:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-15 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Hi I have been getting a load from Germany and also a shed load yesterday from DHTMLcentral. Nice... -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 07:27:01 up 3 days, 22:35, 1 user,

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 07:27:02 + Inhabitant of Zion wrote: I have been getting a load from Germany and also a shed load yesterday from DHTMLcentral. I feel neglected and under privileged. I do not get any that are not picked up by either my filters or clamav. Charles -- Talking

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-26 Thread Alexander Ruoff
How can you know exactly who it came from? I realize that such mostly comes from infected windoze boxes, and I'm thinking that someone out there who has my email in their address book has a virus which has been spoofing my address, like the one Tom Karen Pino got. The question is who? I

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-26 Thread Tom Karen Pino
Russell W. Behne wrote: Friday at 18:39, Tom Karen Pino wrote: To anyone this may concern, I received this notice from my ISP today. A message which was sent to you by Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been identified by our virus filter as being contaminated with a virus. For your protection, the

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-26 Thread Tom Karen Pino
Russell W. Behne wrote: Saturday at 21:06, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: Yeah, you're right there. I've had people email me asking why I sent them a virus... I only had to say I'm running Linux, so I can't send you a virus. That and check out the headers - that's what tells the truth. I recently

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-26 Thread Tom Karen Pino
Tom Karen Pino wrote: Russell W. Behne wrote: Friday at 18:39, Tom Karen Pino wrote: To anyone this may concern, I received this notice from my ISP today. A message which was sent to you by Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been identified by our virus filter as being contaminated with a virus.

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 23:15, Tom Karen Pino wrote: I, too, would love to know how to trace these things and perhaps send them a present. Don't even try! It would double the (negative) effect of exactly that what it is trying to douse up our bandwidth and incriminate non-M$

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 22:19, Tom Karen Pino wrote: Russell W. Behne wrote: Saturday at 21:06, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: Yeah, you're right there. I've had people email me asking why I sent them a virus... I only had to say I'm running Linux, so I can't send you a virus. That and check

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-26 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:52:03 +0200 Alexander Ruoff disseminated the following: How can you know exactly who it came from? I realize that such mostly comes from infected windoze boxes, and I'm thinking that someone out there who has my email in their address book has a virus which has been

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-26 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 17:15, Tom Karen Pino wrote: Russ, I was sure that this was spoofing. Most of the crap that we get is. The perp probably gets the names from the archives. Consider asking your ISP to implement Sender Policy Framework. It effectively nullifies the ability of

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-26 Thread Tom Karen Pino
Tom Karen Pino wrote: Russell W. Behne wrote: Hi Tom, No, that message isn't from me. I never use the word `Hello' on the Subject: line. Someone obviously spoofed my email address. If you can bounce a copy to me I'd appreciate it. And if anyone knows how to find out who actually did it, and

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-25 Thread Russell W. Behne
Saturday at 21:06, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: Yeah, you're right there. I've had people email me asking why I sent them a virus... I only had to say I'm running Linux, so I can't send you a virus. That and check out the headers - that's what tells the truth. I recently had about 10 viruses

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-25 Thread Russell W. Behne
Friday at 18:39, Tom Karen Pino wrote: To anyone this may concern, I received this notice from my ISP today. A message which was sent to you by Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been identified by our virus filter as being contaminated with a virus. For your protection, the original message has

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-23 Thread Tom Karen Pino
Randall D. Hobbs wrote: On Friday 22 October 2004 07:39 pm, Tom Karen Pino wrote: A message which was sent to you by Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been identified by our virus filter as being contaminated with a virus. For your protection, the original message has been placed into the greymail

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-23 Thread Randall D. Hobbs
On Saturday 23 October 2004 08:04 pm, Tom Karen Pino wrote: I keep getting things from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am well aware that I did not send this and so assume that a lot of the spam I get is from a bogus adress. Yeah, you're right there. I've had people email me asking why I sent them a

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-22 Thread Randall D. Hobbs
On Friday 22 October 2004 07:39 pm, Tom Karen Pino wrote: A message which was sent to you by Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been identified by our virus filter as being contaminated with a virus. For your protection, the original message has been placed into the greymail quarantine area. To

Re: [newbie] Virus

2004-10-21 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 04:06, Bryan Phinney wrote: Someone running windows that has service through an ISP in Uruguay is infected with the Netsky virus. If you run windows and have dial-up service in Uruguay, you need to check your system and disinfect it. (Good - I'm off the hook) --

Re: [newbie] Virus scanner for linux (no I havenn't lost my mind)

2004-06-01 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 26 May 2004 07:55 pm, Aidan Holmes wrote: Does anybody out there know of/use/recommend a virus scanning package for linux? I'm hoping to use one to scan clients hard drives without having to leave mandrake and boot into Winblows XP. Spamassasin has prebuilt filters that can be

Re: [newbie] Virus scanner for linux (no I havenn't lost my mind)

2004-05-31 Thread Aidan Holmes
Stephen Kuhn wrote: Mate, I am in the same boat - except I bring my customer's boxen in here to the lab and connect them to the network. I've been using ClamScan and F-Prot - both free - both updatable. Work like a charm. Clamscan: www.clamav.net F-Prot: www.f-prot.com stephen kuhn - owner That

Re: [newbie] Virus scanner for linux (no I havenn't lost my mind)

2004-05-31 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 10:45, Aidan Holmes wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: Mate, I am in the same boat - except I bring my customer's boxen in here to the lab and connect them to the network. I've been using ClamScan and F-Prot - both free - both updatable. Work like a charm. Clamscan:

Re: [newbie] Virus scanner for linux (no I havenn't lost my mind)

2004-05-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 12:55, Aidan Holmes wrote: Does anybody out there know of/use/recommend a virus scanning package for linux? I'm hoping to use one to scan clients hard drives without having to leave mandrake and boot into Winblows XP. I use a removeable HDD bay for this purpose as

RE: [newbie] Virus scanner for linux (no I havenn't lost my mind)

2004-05-26 Thread Josh
ClamAV and F-Prot can both scan a windows partition from Linux. However, I doubt they would be much help if you are trying to clean an ntfs partition. Josh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aidan Holmes Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:56

Re: [newbie] Virus scanner for linux (no I havenn't lost my mind)

2004-05-26 Thread Marc
Well from a commercial point of view. 1. www.sophos.com has a Linux anti virus client, its easy enough to install as long as you have glibc installed, well an up to date version that is. The linux .tar.gz file(s) are all on the cd's and I can reccomend it, as I use it personally at work, and it

Re: [newbie] Virus problems

2004-02-04 Thread robin
Anne Wilson wrote: Increasingly, members of this list are being accused of sending virused emails. I know that some of you have no choice but to use windows for part of your life, but PLEASE, if you do, check that you are clean. Our addresses are being picked up from somewhere, and more and

Re: [newbie] Virus problems

2004-02-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 13:32, robin wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Increasingly, members of this list are being accused of sending virused emails. I know that some of you have no choice but to use windows for part of your life, but PLEASE, if you do, check that you are clean. Our

Re: [newbie] Virus problems

2004-02-04 Thread John Richard Smith
robin wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Increasingly, members of this list are being accused of sending virused emails. I know that some of you have no choice but to use windows for part of your life, but PLEASE, if you do, check that you are clean. Our addresses are being picked up from somewhere,

Re: [newbie] Virus problems

2004-02-04 Thread aronsmith
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 07:07, John Richard Smith wrote: robin wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Increasingly, members of this list are being accused of sending virused emails. I know that some of you have no choice but to use windows for part of your life, but PLEASE, if you do, check that

Re: [newbie] Virus problems

2004-02-04 Thread Littlefish Operator
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 13:52:58 +, Anne Wilson wrote On Wednesday 04 February 2004 13:32, robin wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Increasingly, members of this list are being accused of sending virused emails. I know that some of you have no choice but to use windows for part of your life,

Re: [newbie] Virus problems

2004-02-04 Thread Lexx /Sigil
Scott said: From my experience, this virus isn't just scanning address books and flailing away. It's mixing and matching so if it finds [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] in an infected computer, it's going to fake [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Virus problems

2004-02-04 Thread Tony S. Sykes
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 4:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Virus problems Scott said: From my experience, this virus isn't just scanning address books and flailing away. It's mixing and matching so if it finds [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Virus problems

2004-02-04 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 17:05:31 - Tony S. Sykes disseminated the following: I can't believe a regular list user to be that naive. That's the point, it may not be a list member. Remember, 'six degrees of separation' ;-) -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org

RE: [newbie] Virus problems

2004-02-04 Thread Tony S. Sykes
lol, that's what I meant, I can't believe that it is a regular list member. Tony. -Original Message- From: JoeHill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 5:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Virus problems On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 17:05:31 - Tony S

RE: [newbie] Virus problems

2004-02-04 Thread Littlefish Operator
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Virus problems Scott said: From my experience, this virus isn't just scanning address books and flailing away. It's mixing and matching so if it finds [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] in an infected computer, it's going to fake [EMAIL

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