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  From: Steven Ellison <sellison@pcsa.net.au>
  To  : Jim Bickford <jim.bickford@flinders.edu.au>
  Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:05:55 +0930 (CST)

Re: Antivirus -- Melissa

This has now been made useless as there are already mutations of the
virus which do not have the same subject line which this method depends
on.

	Steven Ellison

 On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Jim Bickford wrote:

> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:47:56 +0930
> From: Jim Bickford <jim.bickford@flinders.edu.au>
> To: Tharmarajah <rajah@asiatic.com.my>
> Cc: Linux SA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
> Subject: Re: Antivirus -- Melissa
> Resent-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:48:11 +0930
> Resent-From: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
> 
> 
> 
> 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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