Re: SWEN virus.

From: Edwin Johnson (elj_at_jflight.elj.org)
Date: 11/11/03 

Date: 11 Nov 2003 13:45:16 GMT

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:52:40 -0600, Shashank Khanvilkar
<shashank@mia.ece.uic.edu> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am receiving these annoying mails containing swen virus. My PC is not
>infected with it, and I don't even know where it is coming from.. I could
>setup filters but i was more concerned about the BW that it eats up, when i
>download my mails from the server on a dial-up connection.
>
>Is there any way in which i can configure my SMTP server to stop receiving
>mails that contain this virus.
>How do i attack this problem.??

I use mailfilter which you can configure for specific words in the To:,
From:, and Subject: lines. It contacts the server and deletes the emails on
the server periodically (with crontab), so that they are never actually
brought in from the server to my dial-up connected computer.

I have it set up both manually and with a crontab where that is performed
first and then the mail is fetched (I use getpop3).

...Edwin

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