>I had to send out this message to my list tonight. > >Is there any way to more-effectively deal with this Backdoor_nk.svr >virus, or any similar virus that sends itself to the addresses of >mail (possibly only unread mail) in the In-Queue of the victim? > >Why wasn't the virus sent to the list address? (We were ready for >that: we lowered the max. message size to 180 lines). Is there >anything we can do (with the LSOFT listserv options) to MAKE a virus >send it to the list address next time, instead of sending off-list >contaminated messages? No. That's under the control of the author of the virus, who unfortunately doesn't appear to be inclined to make things easy for list owners. ;-) >Any other ideas for general virus purposes? (This is a bit >embarrassing, as we started a membership drive just this week, and it >was a new member -- new yesterday -- who brought in the virus.) You could temporarily add a warning to the message that gets sent to new subscribers. Unfortunately subscriber education is really the only solution I can think of here. Others may have better suggestions. Thanks, -- Jacob Haller, Technical Support L-Soft international, Inc http://www.lsoft.com/