Using an antivirus program that scans email and attachments, is probably the
best way to go. If any of you need a good anti-virus program you can get
Inoculan from computer associates for free at http://antivirus.cai.com/
Jamy
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net]On Behalf Of Jon
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 11:26 AM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: RE: DML: VIRUS WARNING
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Bernd D. Ratsch wrote:
> Uhhhh...good point. John?
>
> - Bernd
Yep, I have several filters set up to catch attachments. However, there
are different types of attachments; since the body of the message is ASCII,
the only way to know if it is an attachment or not is by looking at the
e-mail headers (except for uuencoded stuff). Anyway, the filters work by
looking at the content type; usually it is text/plain, but it checks for
text/html and multipart/mixed, as those are both attachments. The type on
this attachment on this virus was application/octet-stream; haven't seen
that one before.
But, the good news is that a new filter has been set up, so there's one
less type of attachment that'll make it though in the future. :-P
-Jon-
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