And 3 - we can actually do something about the situation by blocking
the messages if/where they pass through a Linux box.
Scott.
>From sendmail.cf for Sendmail >= 8.9 :
HSubject: $>local_check_header
D{MelissaMessage}"553 Your message may contain the Melissa/ILOVEYOU virus. Plea
se email postmaster@$j if you have questions."
Slocal_check_header
RILOVEYOU $* $#error $: ${MelissaMessage}
RImportant Message From $* $#error $: ${MelissaMessage}
RRe: Important Message From $* $#error $: ${MelissaMessage}
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 11:47:14PM +1000, Carlo wrote:
> I think that this sort of virus can still effect the linux community, in two
> ways..
>
> If this was to stike a company then the mail systems they are running will
> have a huge amount of data hit them in a very small time. I seen one of
> these things hit a novell server which hardley noticed, yet a NT server in
> another company went in its special BLUE screen mode.
>
> Linux people can say, 1 our freeware server can handle this stress with out
> too much hassle, 2.. Our GUI dont have any issues such as those found on the
> microsoft solutions.
>
> You can use this situation to push linux into the business world, so that a
> NT server or 2 (or a few thousand) to not crash in vain.. Their crashing is
> only a opportunity to show the world LINUX and what it can do for you..
> (wally from fairstar computers style)
>
> Carlo
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aussie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 11:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] OT but warning for Sysadmins
>
>
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > On 4 May 00, at 23:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > we have been hit by a new virii, the email subject title is ILOVEYOU, it
> > > has caused some problems in Dell Australia, we had to filter the email
> > > to trash that has this title. what we have found about this attack is it
> > > replicates using outlook addressbook (How usless is I.S department
> > ^^^^^^^
> > > allowing to use a program that has had so many virial attacks that
> > > replicates by grabbing addresses in the address book) also it opens IE
> > > and attaches to a web site and downloads a file. todate we do not know
> > > what the file does. I have been informed that Norton is developing an
> > > antivirus update and it should be ready by approx 2am.
> >
> > Anyone here overly concerned about yet another IE/Outlook virus? I know
> > I'm not. I actually think it's quite funny.....is this a message from
> > Bill himself? A virus that only affects IE/Outlook called ILoveYou??
> >
> > Aussie
> >
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60
> > Comment: Please verify this signature. http://www.pgpi.com
> >
> > iQA/AwUBORDvY5Zb9oayhFBBEQLymgCfZsOVla0VxwDc9W+xKmP9ikXNs94AoPk6
> > TtqRfNlQS1t4kJeYT+EV1nfy
> > =1xFz
> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> >
> > PGP Key Block available at:
> > http://aussie.mine.nu/aussie/pgp_key.txt
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