Re: [OT] Virusses (many!) via list?

[Joel HATSCH <debian-ml@joel-hatsch.net>]

> > At least for me, I am using some anti-virus and anti-spam utilities
> > on my local server, but the issue is that you first have to download
> > the 150kB to find out it's a virus. and I also noticed the last day
> > 20-30 of such emails, leading to some Mb to download for nothing...
> > except the money for the online time (have no flatrate).
> > So it's really an issue (at least for me) as this costs me money !
> 
> those Microsoft Outlook (Express)/Internet Explorer users who give a
> sh** about security || privacy really sucks. Specially Microsoft
> extremely sucks, because they make such worms etc. possible. So I
> updated my mailfilter config:
> http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/~gsauthoff/mailfilterrc
> (the regular expression catches nearly every 150 KB Message - but 
> false-positives are always possible)
> 
> Mailfilter deletes the messages at the pop3 server wihout downloading.

Works great !!!
Just added : ALLOW=^Subject: .*suse-security
as it triggered : DENY=^Subject:
.*(Critical|Security|network|internet|net) (Upgrade|Update|Pack|patch)

=> 170 (20Mb) emails filtered out !

THANKS A LOT !

Joel