Re: debian.org sending viruses
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 05:33:54PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:43:37PM +0000, Mark Howard wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Of course I know this is not true, but it does look like it is and is
> > probably worrying to some people. I've had a couple of viruses sent
> > pretending to be from people at debian in the past few days. Is there
> > anything we can do about this?
>
> That seems to be a common virus feature nowadays. There's obviously no way
> to deal with forged mail sent without ever passing the d.o servers, but
> for those that do, it may be worthwhile to do some filtering on it.
In this case it went via master.debian.org, or did I reach a false
conclusion somehow?
Received: from master.debian.org (master.debian.org [65.125.64.135]) by
thebe.your-site.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 281DE244E34 for
<debian@tildemh.com>; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 20:02:41 -0500 (EST)
Received: from atg-smtp4.t-com.ne.jp [218.219.54.54] by master.debian.org
with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 18pHsF-000110-00; Sat, 01 Mar 2003
19:02:39 -0600
Anyway, the only way to solve this would be to require all E-Mails
be signed...
This is likely to raise other issues though, which I don't have time to
think about right now.
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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