full-disclosure - viruses being sent to this list

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From: macecil at comcast.net (Michael Cecil)
Subject: viruses being sent to this list 

At 01:02 PM 3/23/2004, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu said:
 >On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:30:34 +1100, Dave Horsfall <dave@...sfall.org>  said:
 >
 >> Someone said that they haven't seen any virus postings; you sure they
 >> are not being dumped by your ISP?  They are *definitely* there.
 >
 >I know many get dumped by my mail server, which is why I went and checked the
 >actual list archives, and I *still* didn't see any that the archives thought
 >were from Gadi.  I went through looking for Subject: lines that looked virusy
 >as well, and didn't spot any (although I admit I wasn't as thorough on that
 >part).

If someone on the list is infected, that virus could send itself to other 
list recipients and spoof Gadi's return address.  I haven't seen any 
viruses from list members either but I think Comcast may try to filter 
known viruses.
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Michael Cecil
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