Sophos Antivirus...

[Steve Thomas]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 04:36:10PM -0400, Scott Adkins is rumored to have said:
>
> Basically, when the mailbox file changes, an auto-update process kicks
> off.  It has come in handy in a couple instances, such as the Sobig-E

I have a utility that automates the downloading of the IDEs when the e-mail is received. It extracts the URL out of the message and downloads the IDE file. It's used by setting up an alias in sendmail which feeds the message to the program.

Here's the URL for those interested:

  http://www.sthomas.net/perl/scripts/sidefire.php


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