Email Vulnerabilities
Glynn S. Condez
glynn at MAKATI.TECHSQUARE.COM
Tue Sep 24 06:10:16 IST 2002
Yeah, I got three emails coming to my inbox and the emails are very clear. I
only got this eicar.com email in my Deleted Items eventhough I haven't
deleted. doest the mailscanner sends this to my Deleted Items coz SWEEP is
not working anymore?
--- Glynn ---
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Murchison" <james at un.net.au>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: Email Vulnerabilities
> If your not getting the Virus Warning message the Scanner (Sweep) isn't
> working. The {VIRUS} message is probably being generated by the allowed
> files routine. If you have set your e-mail address as the postmaster,
> you should receive at least two messages (probably 3) 1 the return
> warning 2 the Postmaster warning and 3 the original message stripped.
>
> KR J.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Glynn S. Condez
> Sent: Tuesday, 24 September 2002 2:54 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Email Vulnerabilities
>
>
> Hi guys, I just updated my mailscanner from 3.22-7 to 3.23-1 and what I
> have found out is the speed, its more faster now and the the
> vulnerability test from GFI doesn't work anyone.
>
> One thing I am wondering with, why does this eicar.com gfi test email
> goes to my outlook express deleted items with a modified subject
> {VIRUS?} eicar.com [1/5] up to [5/5] and theres no warning message in
> the body and the attachment is intact with the filename eicar.com. im
> just wondering about this.
>
> Also, I am using Sophos and I got this message in my console "Useful
> life of SWEEP has beed exceeded" does the Sophos doesn't work anymore?
>
>
> --- Glynn ---
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glynn S. Condez" <glynn at MAKATI.TECHSQUARE.COM>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:37 AM
> Subject: Re: Email Vulnerabilities
>
>
> > Thanks Jeff for the great idea, it seems that there's nothing that I
> > need to reconfigure except for the conf files of mailscanner.
> >
> >
> > --- Glynn ---
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jeff A. Earickson" <jaearick at COLBY.EDU>
> > To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:28 AM
> > Subject: Re: Email Vulnerabilities
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I set up my mailscanner directory thus:
> > >
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root daemon 10 Sep 23 14:01 bin ->
> bin-3.23-1/
> > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root none 1024 Sep 13 10:23 bin-3.22-14/
> > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root none 1024 Sep 23 13:46 bin-3.23-1/
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root daemon 10 Sep 23 14:01 etc ->
> etc-3.23-1/
> > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root none 1024 Sep 13 10:29 etc-3.22-14/
> > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root none 1024 Sep 23 13:55 etc-3.23-1/
> > > drwxr-xr-x 3 root none 512 May 2 11:52 man/
> > > drwxr-xr-x 8 jaearick jaearick 512 Sep 23 14:06 src/
> > > drwx------ 4 root none 512 May 3 09:38 var/
> > >
> > > When a new version of mailscanner comes out, I untar it and move the
>
> > > mailscanner/etc and mailscanner/bin directories to etc-[version] and
>
> > > bin-[version]. Then I do side-by-side comparisons of the default
> > > config versus my setup. When I've carried my config changes into
> > > the new etc files, I stop mailscanner, change the symlinks, restart
> > > mailscanner. Virtually no down time. It would be nice if this kind
>
> > > of directory versioning was incorporated into the tarfiles for v4
> > > somehow...
> > >
> > > ** Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D PHONE:
> 207-872-3659
> > > ** Senior UNIX Sysadmin, Information Technology EMAIL:
> > jaearick at colby.edu
> > > ** Colby College, 4214 Mayflower Hill, FAX:
> 207-872-3076
> > > ** Waterville ME, 04901-8842
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----
> > --
> > >
> > > On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Glynn S. Condez wrote:
> > >
> > > > Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:18:03 +0800
> > > > From: Glynn S. Condez <glynn at MAKATI.TECHSQUARE.COM>
> > > > Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > > Subject: Re: Email Vulnerabilities
> > > >
> > > > oh by the way, this the first time that I am going to upgrade the
> > > > mailscanner, is it possible if I am going to rename the old
> mailscanner
> > > > directory and install the new version of mailscanner as
> > > > mailscanner?
> > > >
> > > > or is there anything that I need to be reconfigure?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > --- Glynn ---
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Glynn S. Condez" <glynn at MAKATI.TECHSQUARE.COM>
> > > > To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:02 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: Email Vulnerabilities
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > This mailing list is great, the response is so fast :) well
> > > > > I'll
> do
> > the
> > > > > upgrade, email you guys about the results.
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks
> > > > >
> > > > > --- Glynn ---
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: "Mike Kercher" <mike at CAMAROSS.NET>
> > > > > To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:05 AM
> > > > > Subject: Re: Email Vulnerabilities
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > Try upgrading to 3.22-15 I think Julian got it to detect all
> > > > > > of
> the
> > > > > vulnerabilities.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> > > > > > Behalf Of Glynn S. Condez
> > > > > > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 8:58 PM
> > > > > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > > > > Subject: Email Vulnerabilities
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Based on these website http://www.gfi.com/emailsecuritytest,
> > > > > > some
> > of
> > > > the
> > > > > > test email that contents a test virus or codes goes through
> > > > > > and
> the
> > > > > > mailscanner doesn't detect the embedded scripts in the emails.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > In version 4, is it possible to scan these kinds of viruses or
> code?
> > by
> > > > > the
> > > > > > way I'm using the stable version of mailscanner 3-22.7 with
> > > > > > spamassassin2-31.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --- Glynn ---
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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