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  From: Jim Bickford <jim.bickford@flinders.edu.au>
  To  : Tharmarajah <rajah@asiatic.com.my>
  Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:47:56 +0930

Re: Antivirus -- Melissa

Tharmarajah wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> Is there any antivirus for linux ?
> 
> The reason is that...my company is using linux for e-mail access thru our
> ISP and also for Internal E-mails. So,we want to setup an antivirus software
> on the linux box, so when ever if there is a virus, it will kill the virus
> before entering to our network.
> 
> Currently, the latest virus is MELISA it comes as an macro virus on Word
> documents. So how do I control on the e-mails...from spreading the virus
> over our network
> 
 Hi Tharmarajah
This is from the recent AUSCERT bullitin about Melissa...

With Sendmail

       Nick Christenson of sendmail.com provided information about
       configuring sendmail to filter out messages that may contain the
       Melissa virus. This information is available from the follow URL:
      
ftp://ftp.cert.org/pub/cert_advisories/Patches/CA-99-04-sendmail-m
       elissa-filter.txt

This will filter the origonal Melissa virus however there are now
variants in the wild which it does not catch... see

http://www.32bitsonline.com

At least these viruses won't bring Sendmail to its knees like they do
Exchange.
Cheers
JimB
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