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Re: Exim Subject rejection, (* **** ***)



How hard would it be to filter *.vbs attachments out.  It was fairly simple
to do with NT based MDaemon, but I'm not sure how to go about it with exim
or postfix.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Coker" <russell@coker.com.au>
To: "Cherubini Enrico" <kevin@bestkevin.com>; "Ralf G. R. Bergs"
<rabe@RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Cc: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>; <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 6:17 AM
Subject: Re: Exim Subject rejection, (* **** ***)


On Thu, 04 May 2000, Cherubini Enrico wrote:
>> if ($h_subject: is "ILOVEYOU" or $h_subject: is "I LOVE YOU") and not
>> error_mess
>
>what if someone change subject ? I can't understand why we should believe
>the virus can be only in email with these subject (or like the penpal
friend
>one)
>Wouldn't be better do scan email in body searching for fingerprint of
macros
>? maybe it can be of high weight to scan all email, but if you want to do
>something, it's better to do it at the best.

Another issue of course is that this subject filter will really suck when St
Valentine's day comes around.

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