I believe that this was posted here eariler. The "filter" causes listserv to remove any and all attachments. Attachments= No, filter ........................... ........................... On 10/10/00 at 3:31 PM the talented Alex Rudd offered the following discourse in a most eloquent manner: >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" > >Also, a number of subscribers reported that their anti-virus >programs snagged the post, and they even snagged the DIGEST >messages containing the post. > >Rather than include the entire message here (where it would >only cause further concern), I've thrown it up here: > >http://members.home.net/lists/police-lpost.htm > >What you see there is exactly what I got when reading the >post here in my VM account. > >Obviously, my subscribers are concerned. Any advice on what I >can tell them? > >Has anyone else dealt with this before? Is this the first time >someone has seen an attachment that doesn't act like an attachment? > >Thanks. > >- Alex, list owner of POLICE-L [log in to unmask] >.................................................................... >Alex Rudd [log in to unmask] ARS KA2ZOO >{Standard Disclaimer} http://www.police-l.org/ and that is what Alex Rudd said. ........................... ...........................