Re: Viruses on Lists
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- Subject: Re: Viruses on Lists
- From: T*
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 05:09:48 -0400
On 10/23/00 9:56 PM Louise Parsons (parsont@peak.org) said:
>Size limit is popular in several systems because it is simple to enact and
>as you (Tom) say so many of these bugs are coming in in such varying forms.
>I know of no documented virus or worm that is less than 200 lines. If
>anyone does know of one (even a rare one) I know a lot of listowners who
>would like to have the specific reference. It is a volatile world we live
>in computerwise. If Tom or anyone is by chance actively using Listproc as
>a listowner, you might like to contact Sean and help him to configure the
>list to block attachments and HTML messages, ~if that is desired. With most
>packages blocking is simply a matter of using additional keywords or
>filters. HTML and attachments blocks alone don't necessarily get them all
>either, so I don't want to lead anyone down the garden path. <wry grin>.
The kak/worm can hide in HTML messages and can probably still get thru in
200 line messages, however big that is. My mail list runs on LetterRip,
mail list software that runs on Macs.
Tom Miller
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