EMERGENCY: MyParty

[Quentin Campbell]

Julian

I applied the fix to sendmail.pl (3.03-1) but on my systems I get the
following message when restarting MailScanner:

  Not a SCALAR reference at /opt/mailscanner/bin/sendmail.pl line 67.

Quentin
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk]
> Sent: 28 January 2002 12:40
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: EMERGENCY: MyParty
> 
> 
> 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 :-(
> --
> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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>