EMERGENCY: MyParty

Julian Field jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Jan 28 13:10:44 GMT 2002


At 12:51 28/01/2002, you wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:39:34PM +0000, Julian Field wrote:
> > The MyParty virus is not being caught by MailScanner.
> >
> > I am in the process of issuing a fix for this, which will be version
> > 3.04-1. Everyone should upgrade to this version. Those not wanting to
> > upgrade, but merely wanting a fix for their current code should see the
> > website News and a simple fix is a 1-line change.
> >
> > Sorry about this folks, they caught me out on an optimisation :-(
>
>These things happen.

Thanks for your understanding :-)

>Anyhow quick question:
>
>is an upgrade on a sub version as simple as just dropping a new
>binary in place and restarting mailscanner?

You would need to replace bin/*pl and bin/mailscanner for starters. Then
diff your mailscanner.conf files to find any new keywords (or look in
docs/conf.shtml as the most recent keywords are at the top of the list).
--
Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ



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