At 15:31 10/10/2000 Tuesday, Alex Rudd wrote: >Greetings... > >Someone posted a virus to one of my lists, POLICE-L, yesterday. > >LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU is running LISTSERV(R) for NT 1.8d and I do >have Attachments= No in the list header. Still, this one >slipped through. I'd love to know why and/or whether there's >anything (else) that can be done to prevent it from happening >again. > >My first thought was that it wasn't really an attachment (for >lack of boundary). But this is in the message header: > >Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Very Funny.vbs" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Very Funny.vbs" Based upon previous readings of LSTOWN-L and the docs, this list option does NOT prevent text attachments from being distributed. I believe the .VBS is basically a scripting language written in "plain" text, not encoded. Also, not that it will solve all problems, but you might consider your SIZELIM= value. The included text was over 300 lines. I have my list set to 200.