RE: Virus incident
On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 14:11, Josh Everist wrote:
> Well I can take responsibility for the messages from
> 'antigen@page1book.com', however if the Debian User mailing list didn't send
> out viruses in the first place, there wouldn't be the automated reply.
The automated replies act like a denial of service. You must look at
fixing your system. If many people used the same software there would be
hundreds if not thousands of these automated replies for every single
virus-infected message or false alarm. I certainly deleted far more of
the automated replies than the viruses.
> The same goes for the YODA messages.
>
> In all honesty I've merely kept up with my software and virus updates and
> don't actually know why my software automatically responded.
Well find out.
> However, if there were no response, it wouldn't be nearly as obvious that
> the email from m.dobsicek@sh.cvut.cz was viral.
Windows executables posted to a debian-user mailing list are pretty
obvious.
> So, if there's any way the mailing list can filter out the viruses in the
> first place, you won't see the automated messages.
This is a Debian GNU/Linux mailing list. Perhaps the administrators
could look at filtering a problem caused by Windows users, but I
wouldn't put a high priority on it.
> At any rate I hope people
> go after the real culprit(the sender of the virus) and don't take it out on
> us.
Not yet :-) Just fix your system. It's just as annoying as those who
post out-of-office replies to mailing lists. If received 57 of them due
to one post the other day on a NT mailing list.
Regards,
Adam
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