On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, J F Hitches wrote:
> From memory "Hi, how are you" has been described by some of the
> anti-virus sites as being the covering email for one of recent
> very prolific viruses - possibly Redworm.
Hi, how are you?
It's Sircam. Code Red was something else, but equally big in its way.
You can run email virus protection on a border mail gateway, e.g.
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/ (our own one)
http://www.sendmail-filter.sbu.ac.uk/ (another good one, I hear)
Both are cheap to get running, but you need some Unix knowledge.
MailScanner is running on our University gateways, and picked up 1,000
Sircam instances per day at its peak. Well worth installing...
Tim
>
> As always, the safest thing is to delete any attachment from an
> unknown or unrecognised source, and even to take care with
> attachments from known sources.
>
> If I can get more details I will make a later posting.
>
> John Hitches
> John Hitches
> Information Security Officer
> and Data Protection Officer
> Kingston University
> Telephone 020 8547 7768
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