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  From: Kevin Waterson <kevin@oceania.net>
  To  : gaelyne@videocam.net.au
  Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:21:34 +1000

Re: Antivirus

gaelyne@videocam.net.au wrote:

> I believe what was asked regarding the Melissa virus is if there's any
> way we, as Linux administrators can detect Emails containing either the
> virus (or some key phrase/item) in an effort to provide some
> measure of protection (or at the very least warning) for our clients.
>
> I have a feeling that in this sense, procmail could probably detect any
> key phrases used in such an Email, but it depends on how the message
> comes in.  If it's all in base64 encoding, it wouldn't be possible.
> If the key phrases are in plain-text, it may be possible