Re: spam microsoft
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 23:20:04 +0000, Robin Gerard wrote:
> microsoft sends me five spam
Please learn how SMTP works and how easy it is to forge mail. It is
extremely unlikely that these messages originated with Microsoft.
> of 160 000 bytes in my box
That's a fairly typical size for a virus message.
> and when I run host I receive the message: address not exists.
Definitely sounds like a virus.
> If the adress exists I put it in my file hosts.allow but without success.
> I don't know if smtp-refuser works fine ?
Looking at its description, smtp-refuser doesn't strike me as very useful.
Viruses can come from all over the net, and spammers nowadays often control
numerous IP addresses from which they distrubte their garbage.
If you administer your own SMTP server, there are several effective methods
to deal with spam and virus/worm mail. I've personally switched to
exim4 with the exiscan patch (package "exim4-daemon-heavy"), configured it
to block certain extensions (e.g. ".exe", ".bat", ".pif"), run messages
through ClamAV and SpamAssasin. With this setup, most of the crap sent to me
never gets delivered, but gets refused at SMTP time.
HTH,
Ray
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"A.O.L.. C.I.A.. NSA. Whatever. They all have three letters. They all
collect information. And they all screw the public."
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