[NCLUG] Follow-up to WARNING.

Sean Reifschneider jafo at tummy.com
Thu Feb 8 19:14:04 MST 2001


Apparently, this is a continuation of the sexyfun worm, though I haven't
been able to determine yet why it's suddenly causing interrupted service
after having sit around without causing any real problems for the mail
servers over the last 6 months.

I set up qmail to archive mail to the anon.lhs.mit.edu site instead of
trying to deliver it.  This costs a lot fewer resources than all-out
virus scanning, especially when the client isn't sure they can afford
several new machines and licenses to the virus scanners for a cluster of
boxes to scan them.

Sean
-- 
 UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that
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Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <jafo at tummy.com>
tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls, Python



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