Re: Is swen back?

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

John Conover (<conover@rahul.net>) wrote:

> Andreas Janssen writes:
>> 
>> Alphonse Ogulla (<ogulla@uonbi.ac.ke>) wrote:
>> 
>> > Got 200 plus mail bombs in my pop3 account this morning. Luckily I
>> > used Kmail and filtered (deleted) every incoming message of size
>> > greater than 40Kb. Just wondering, is swen back from holiday? How
>> > you people managing?
>> 
>> From my point of view, it looks like it never really went away. Over
>> the last months, I get between 30 to 50 of this viruses, mostly swen,
>> every day. Sometimes until the daily forwarding quota for my bigfoot
>> account is exceeded.
>>
> FYI, if you are running procmail in a shell account:
> 
>     :0 BD
>     * ^(T(24gRXJ|V(oAAAI|pQAAI|psAAE|qQAAM))|(UEsDBBQ))
>     /dev/null
> 
> in your ~/.procmailrc will catch most M$ executables in your e-mail
> and trash them.
> [...]

Thanks, but I am connected to the internet using an analog modem, so the
way for me to get rid of them is deleting them on the server. I really
don't want to download some MB of viruses every day only to delete them
right afterwards :-)

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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