On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 06:05, jeffrey wrote: > Though perhaps draconian, I have had great success with blocking most > of the chinese and korean IP space at a firewall (just port 25). Yes, > I get a lot of log entries and, yes, there is a chance I may block a > legit email (someday), but it has reduced that source to the merest > trickle.... > > Most viruses come in as attachments. Most attachments come in with a > .xxx suffix that can be filtered at the mail server level. I haven't > accepted a .com, .vbs, .shr, etc. file via email in a long time, > because of the probability of it being a virus. I just save them. Sometimes they come in handy. (Like testing virus scanners on e-mail gateways. I found that some are not as bulletproof as they advertise.) Of course, not reading mail under Windows helps. I have noticed that the amount of Spam I am getting has jumped about 300% in the last week or so. Not all of it is Klez either. Since the junk fax case went down, I have seen a hard rise in crap in my mailbox. Glad i gave the mail queue over a gig of space the last time I rebuilt the mail server.
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