Re: attachments

["Christopher J. Basten" <basten@statgen.ncsu.edu>]

Stewart is right.  All postings go through stripmime.pl, where html and attachements are
stripped.   I looked at the archive and I don't see any viruses, so they must be coming
through a different channel.      There are probably two or three attempts per day to
send viruses (or spam) through the list:  majordomo and stripmime bounce them to me
and I delete them before they get through. 

Chris

>Hi Joe and all,
>
>The sumo ML server does not pass any attachments.
>
>It appears that an ML member (or former member) is infected and his
>machine is sending out the virus to addresses taken from ML postings.
>
>Based on the headers of a recently received malicious message with
>a sumo related subject, I believe that the victim is in France,
>possibly a Wanadoo customer, probably in the Marseille area, and
>probably connected via DSL.  The machine name might be 'laurens'.
>
>If this could be you, please check if your computer is infected.
>
>--Stewart
>
>> Lately we've received lots of spam and viruses on this list.  I rarely
>> recall a time when anybody needed to use attachments on this ML, so
>> perhaps it would be possible for Chris to disallow attachments to this
> > list?
> >
> > What do other members think?
> >
> >   - The Other Joe
> >


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