[vox-tech] Virus deluge

Mark K. Kim vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:01:35 -0800 (PST)


Nice.  Put it into my procmail.  It's catching quite a few spams.  Some
are still coming through, so it seems like there are a couple variants,
but this certainly helps.  I guess I can catch the others ones with
something similar...

This is the worst MS spam worm so far, at least for my mailbox.

-Mark


On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Rod Roark wrote:

> I just created and installed a Postfix remedy for the latest
> MS malware outbreak, and thought I'd pass it on.  I'm seeing
> a VERY high rate of connections from machines infected with
> this stuff.
>
> In main.cf, insert this:
>
> body_checks=pcre:/etc/postfix/virus_body_checks
>
> Create a file virus_body_checks containing this:
>
> /^TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA\/\/8AALg/ REJECT Emails with Microsoft executable attachments are not allowed here.
> /^UEsDBAoAAAAAA...OzDKJx\+eAFgAAABYAA/ REJECT Attached zip file appears to contain a virus.
>
> If anyone has an improved solution, let me know, but this
> seems to work.
>
> -- Rod
>
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