Silent Viruses update

Martyn Routley martyn at INVICTAWIZ.COM
Thu Feb 19 11:45:30 GMT 2004


As a wishlist item is there a possibility of a Silent Viruses List that could be fetched
(from the MailScanner web site?) by a cron job?

Martyn Routley




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> Behalf Of Drew Marshall
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 8:20 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] Silent Viruses update
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>
> Daniel Bird said:
> > Martin Sapsed wrote:
> >
> >> Anyone still maintaining a Silent Viruses list should add Tanx to it if
> >> they use Sophos. I think Symantec have put it in the Beagle family.
> >> Don't know about the others.
> >
> > Mcafee have it listed as W32/Netsky.b at MM.
> >
> > We just have added '@MM' to our list of silent viruses which I belive
> > should do the trick for all the mass mailing worms from now on..
> >
> I run 2 antivirus products, just for my own peace of mind, if I list, for
> example, @MM as a silent viruses, will MailScanner accept the virus as a
> silent one even if the second antivirus product doesn't use the same virus
> name (And therefore may not be listed as silent)?
>
> Drew
> > Dan
> >
> >>
> >> Anyone who's given up on notifying senders about Viruses, please ignore
> >> this message!
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Martin
> >>
> >> --
> >> Martin Sapsed
> >> Information Services               "Who do you say I am?"
> >> University of Wales, Bangor             Jesus of Nazareth
> >>
> >
> >
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