Don't use NT or Windows....
That seems to prevent 95% of viruses from causing any harm.



-----Original Message-----
From: John W. Luther [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 1:26 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Virus got through


Run virus scanning software on your mail server(s).

At 02:06 PM 1/18/02 -0500, Kathy Montgomery wrote:
>A list owner reported to me that one of his subscribers succeeded in
>sending a virus to the list.  Indeed, I was able to download the .BAT
>attachment from the archives, which contained W32.Magistr.39921@mm,
>according to my antivirus software.  The list was set to
>"Attachments=No" and "Language=NoHTML."  The message itself as it
>appears in the archives looks like it has a "Content-Type:
>multipart/mixed;" header.  I don't know how to attempt to duplicate
>what happened.
>
>How did this file get through?  Knowing that LISTSERV can't actually
>scan for viruses, is there any way to prevent this in the future?
>
>Thanks,
>Kathy Montgomery
>University at Albany

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John W. Luther
Systems Administrator
Computing and Information Services
University of Missouri - Rolla

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