On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 12:12:09PM -0500, Chuck Holst wrote: > WARNING: Norton Antivirus informs me that messages from the following > people in today's Paddlewise mail all contained the W32.Bugbear worm, > apparently in an attachment (I didn't open the messages): Just to be completely clear about this, mail submitted to the Paddlewise list, and distributed from there out to the list's subscribers, will not carry an attached virus of any form whatsoever. That this is the case is a by-product of the scripts used (or, more correctly, one script in particular) to run the list. The moderator can confirm this. What is referred to above as "Paddlewise mail" is (I believe) including all mail with the "[Paddlewise]" prefix in the Subject: header. Such mail can come from sources other than the list server itself. It could be legitimate private mail from a fellow list subscriber that simply maintains the Subject: header of a message originating in the list. Or it could be, as is the case of the worm-ridden mail in question, something else entirely. If you wish to filter messages originating on the Paddlewise server into a separate folder, then your filter, if it is to operate reliably, needs to trigger on the following message header: Sender: owner-paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net Simply filtering based on "[Paddlewise]" in the Subject: header won't do the trick. The point of the above being, that PaddleWise and other properly run lists don't spread viruses, worms, or other vermin. And to provide a definitive method of filtering this list's mail, if you wish to do so (the definite part stems from Paddlewise being a Majordomo administered list, and the Sender: header being that software's "header signature"). Pardon the non-kayak-related technical aside, but I thought it might allay some potential fears and inform the curious. -.- jwd *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Oct 02 2002 - 04:47:28 PDT
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