Louis-David Perron wrote:
I don't know if the list masters can do anything about it, but I created this e-mail address especially to post on this list about an apache problem less than 48 hours ago. Since I posted the message, it took less than 12 hours before I started to receive the "Last Microsoft Upgrade" & "New Net Patch" virus... an e-mail body with a nice "Microsoft web site" looking. The virus is named W32.Swen.A@mm. So what I'm asking is: - Is there any members of this mailing list infected by this virus? - Is there anybody spying on the list to send viruses? - Is there anything we can do about it?
HiThere are some virii, that are gathering email addresses via usenet newsgroups. As most of the debian mailing lists can also be accessed via usenet it is no surprise that you get virii.
For spam it is the same: Spammers collect email addresses via usenet or with webcrawlers.
One idea would be to whitelist the lists you're subscribed to and to reject the rest. The big trouble would be that you would not be able to get emails that are directly sent to you from a subscribed person on this list.
The other idea is to use a spam filter (for example spamassassin) and to block every binary attachment (amavisd-new does this) and even better to use clamav as a virus scanner.
Clamav should make part of testing and unstable, but the most recent debs can be downloaded from the clamav site itself:
http://http://www.clamav.net/ They have packages for stable / testing / unstable. Marcel