Cry for help.

Ben C. O. Grimm mailscanner-sub at WIREHUB.NET
Sat Jan 11 01:05:22 GMT 2003


On 11 Jan 2003 01:54:23 +0100, "John B. Hanks" <john.hanks at USU.EDU> wrote:

> We are getting pounded by a (new?) virus that always sends from
> big at boss.com. Can someone tell me a quick and dirty way to start dropping
> all mail from this address? McAfee is not detecting it and I have added a
> block for .pif attachments, but would prefer to drop the mails altogether.

We put this one in our access.db with a DISCARD (under Sendmail). Not sure
what this .pif is yet, but we were blocking it anyway with the filename
rule. DISCARD just saves a bit of extra work.

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