Subject: Re: recommendations for virus/worm scanning software?
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/21/2003 10:10:02
On 20 Sep 2003 18:20:29 -0400
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

> 
> Michael Wolfson <michael@nosflow.com> writes:
> > I've been slammed with a ton of worms the past two days.  What do
> > y'all recommend I use from pkgsrc to block them (using postfix)?
> 
> you don't need anything from pkgsrc to block them. Postfix 2.0 and
> later have excellent scanning abilities built in.
> 
> Just add:
> 
> /^Content-(Type|Disposition):.*(file)?name=.*\.(asd|bat|chm|cmd|com|dll|exe|hlp|hta|js|jse|lnk|ocx|pif|scr|shb|shm|shs|vb|vbe|vbs|vbx|vxd|wsf|wsh)/     REJECT Sorry, we do not accept .${3} file types.
> 
> to your header_checks file (and turn on header checks!) and you'll
> never see any Microsoft viruses ever again.

BTW, does this work if I use fetchmail to fetch my mail?  I thought that fetchmail
connected to the local MTA using SMTP (in this case, postfix) so that the rules
could take effect.  But it seems they do not work...  Ideas?

Thanks.

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
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