John S. Wolter wrote: > I've been receiving an flood EMail with a virus removed and addressed > to the list. Do you think the list is under deliberate attack? I doubt that. I'm receiving zillions of Sobig.F virus posts from all sorts of addresses, not just LSM. There is a major storm going on. On one hand, it is not surprising that the LSM list is getting a lot of Sobig.F traffic, because a lot of people will have our address in their address book, and that is how modern viruses work. On the other hand, it is rather depressing how many of our subscribers apparently use Outlook as a mail client. *Hint*: if you see a virus post to LSM, and you recognize the "From" address as one of your pals, then *you* are probably the infected party and you need to clean it up. > Is there anything the list managers can do to eliminate the problem > EMails? If this continues I will be forced to unsubscribe, too bad. Not without pissing off a whole lot of other people who would unsubscribe if we started putting ham-handed filters on the list. I thought of filtering for the obvious subject lines that Sobig sends, but the subject lines are too short and generic, so such a filter has a significant chance of trapping legitimate posts. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. http://immunix.com/~crispin/ Chief Scientist, Immunix http://immunix.com http://www.immunix.com/shop/ _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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