It's time to get angry

[Psyche101]

Hi All

Can't say I'm angry, prolly a little happy to know that somebody's pride
and joy virus doesn't cause my OS one bit of bother. Suck the puss virus
writer hehehe

For Windows users, a tip I use - entering 000 as an email address to
tell if I have a virus. It will complain that it is a valid email
address, but it will accept it. Then when you cop one of the nasties
that try and send email to everyone in your address book, it goes to 000
first, and as it is not a valid email, it  will halt the send process
and give you a warning. May not remove it, but you are aware that you
have been infected and will save all those in your address book being
infected, and take appropriate action to remove it - if you do not have
current virus protection on your machine, or can't afford the
subscription for updates, have a look at
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php

Worked for me.

Andrew Kozak

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 14:41, Micheal Patterson wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Harald Schmalzbauer" <h at schmalzbauer.de>
> To: <current at freebsd.org>; <questions at freebsd.org>; <stable at freebsd.org>;
> <de-bsd-chat at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 11:10 PM
> Subject: It's time to get angry
> 
> 
> > Dear M$ users,
> >
> > PLEASE clean your systems.
> >
> > I get 15Megs of virus/day (~100 Mails each 150k with M$ trash). Now for
> > over one week, so it's REALLY annoying.
> > Not that there weren't enough great junk filters, it's wasted bandwidth.
> > Not only on my site. If you have to use M$ systems on machines on which
> > you take part in dicussions on FreeBSD-lists, please at least take care
> > that you don't stress the others nerves too much. It's hard enough to
> > read your "quoting". Don't know much about that worm/virus but I'm quiet
> > sure just changing the mail client to something non-M$ would help
> > (before the system were infected).
> >
> > So please format your infected discs, block all outgoing smtp
> > connections, remove the hous' main fuse, whatever, try to stop that
> torture.
> >
> > -Harry
> >
> Maybe you should've sent this to a list that is predominantly Windows users.
> The majority of us in the lists that you sent this to already know this and
> live with it on a daily basis. You have one of the best software systems
> that is available today. Use the available tools for it so you don't get a
> cluttered inbox. Use fetchamil, dump it to your local smtpd, run amavis on
> it, /dev/null the offending messages. It won't stop the feed into your
> dialup pipe, but it will keep your inbox clear.  You might even ask your ISP
> to help in scanning messages for viri. Who knows, they might just do it.
> I'll admit, it's always best to have the problem corrected at the source,
> but it's few of us against the many of them. They're winning so far so we
> have to do what we can to keep them at arms length or farther if possible.
> 
> --
> 
> Micheal Patterson
> Network Administration
> Cancer Care Network
> 
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