As Pete noted earlier, this would not have made a difference in this case. On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:38:44 -0400 John L. Mottl said: >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. >........................... >...........................