Re: SWEN virus.

From: William Park (opengeometry_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 11/11/03 

Date: 10 Nov 2003 23:48:43 GMT

In <comp.os.linux.networking> 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.

If you're downloading from remote POP3 account, then you can write a
script to fetch only top 50 lines of an email. You can then have the
server to delete it. Or, write ~/.procmailrc on that server. I use

    :0
    * boundary=\"[a-z]+\"
    spam

    :0HB
    * ^Content-Type: (text/html|audio/x-(wav|midi)|application/x-(msdownload|zip-compressed))
    spam

>
> 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.??

No, you are downloading from POP3 server. Even if you refuse to accept
the emails, you will still download the entire email from the remote
server. 

-- 
William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Linux solution for data management and processing.

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