I've been getting a lot of messages with attachments on this list, but I haven't opened any of the e-mails to see if the attachments were legitimate. I also started getting tons of "MS Security...", "Microsoft", etc. e-mails with attachments which I have not opened either (especially figuring that the "Microsoft" e-mail contains a virus, although our filter should have caught that one...). Anyone else getting loads of MS e-mails or Samba list e-mails with attachments? -----Original Message----- From: John Gray [mailto:johngray@ihug.com.au] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 3:59 PM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] Re: samba Digest, Vol 9, Issue 41 Anyone else getting viruses attached to these lists?
Jason Balicki
2003-Sep-29 21:44 UTC
OT: Spam and Viruses on the Samba mailing list was: RE: [Samba] Re: samba Digest, Vol 9, Issue 41
Darrik Spaude wrote:>I've been getting a lot of messages with attachments on this >list, but I >haven't opened any of the e-mails to see if the attachments >were legitimate. >I also started getting tons of "MS Security...", "Microsoft", >etc. e-mails >with attachments which I have not opened either (especially >figuring that >the "Microsoft" e-mail contains a virus, although our filter >should have >caught that one...). > >Anyone else getting loads of MS e-mails or Samba list e-mails with >attachments?A lot of the traffic being generated (specifically the ones referencing Microsoft) off this list recently is because of the Gibe or Swen (same thing) worm. Do a google search for this if you're interested in the details. While this is a problem, another generator of useless traffic off this list is the Outlook "Out of the office" autoresponder and misconfigured email servers that bounce messages back to the list for one reason or another (usually a virus laden message will trigger this.) Take this as a kindly reminder to those of you who administer your mail servers to try and do something (like: stop your virus notification programs -- most new email worms and viruses forge the sender anyway so you're not doing anyone any favors). Also, those of you who are tempted to tell the world that you're on vacation: don't. If you must, use an intelligent auto responder that you can filter out the mailing lists that you belong to. If your first instinct is to say "that's too hard" please remove yourself from any mailing list you belong to and have someone hurl empty Pringles cans at you for eternity. Every time I post to the Samba list I get at least half a dozen "Out of the office" replies (sometimes more, depends on the season) and it triggers another round of viruses sent to me. Anyway, rant over. --J(K)
I have been getting those "MS Security thingys as well. On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 07:01, Darrik Spaude wrote:> I've been getting a lot of messages with attachments on this list, but I > haven't opened any of the e-mails to see if the attachments were legitimate. > I also started getting tons of "MS Security...", "Microsoft", etc. e-mails > with attachments which I have not opened either (especially figuring that > the "Microsoft" e-mail contains a virus, although our filter should have > caught that one...). > > Anyone else getting loads of MS e-mails or Samba list e-mails with > attachments? > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Gray [mailto:johngray@ihug.com.au] > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 3:59 PM > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: [Samba] Re: samba Digest, Vol 9, Issue 41 > > > Anyone else getting viruses attached to these lists? > >
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