Virus/worm? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Dec 2000

'Smatter of fact, so do I, for my _personal_ e-mail...

Actually, I don't always end up "previewing" my mail with Pine, but
lately, I have been. Ultimately, if I don't delete the messages from Pine,
I download the remaining messages with Pegasus Mail, which
similarly seems immune to all these Lookout virii.

BTW, I'm using Pine (4.31?) under Solaris (my ISP says they'll always
provide shell access, and I'm one of the few people who turned off the
Lynx-based menu system for the shell (Korn).

I like Bash, perhaps I should switch shells... dang, I'm drifting OT
again.

C Ya! 

-dq

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 From: 	Sellam Ismail
 Reply To: 	classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
 Sent: 	Friday, December 15, 2000 2:48 PM
 To: 	&#39;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&#39;
 Subject: 	RE: Virus/worm?

 On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:

  Strange... my trace of the addresses didn't
point to a site in Crete...

 Seriously, I never even received it- Groupshield Exchange always detects
 this stuff and puts it in quarantine; the original attachment was  replaced
  by a message alerting me to what happened.

 Of course, as the sysadmin, I'd already received a "ticket" informing me
 that an infected message had come in and was taken care of.

 Buggy, and difficult to administer, but the NAI Total Virus Defense
 package hasn't slipped and let anything through yet...  
 I read my mail using PINE on my linux server over a telnet session. It has
 automatic anti-virus features built-in :)

 Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer
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