Re: Status

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> > The virus works by infecting Outlook mail clients, randomly selecting an
> > address from their address book to be used as the "sending" address,
> > then sends the mail to all other addresses in the book.  So, someone
> > who DOES have windows and outlook AND has my email address in their
> > address book is infected and sending mail as if it were me.
> >
> > Before you go and start accusing people, you'd better get your
> > facts right.
>
>
> Darn right!
>
> My question in this area is that I'm a Linux/Evolution user for email but
> run two Windows boxes for my audio recording. I do not run a mail server. I
> know I cannot be infected, at least today. If an email arrives and has an
> infected attachment I'd like to do two things:
>
> 1) Since I may possibly be moving the attachment to a Windows box on my
> network later, I don't want to save an attachment with a virus.
>
> 2) I'd like to be a good citizen and kill the attachment in case it's
> something that I would forward to someone else who may very likely be a
> Windows/Outlook user.
>
> How can I do this in Evolution?

Get ClamAV and add a filter to your incoming mail that forces it through
clamscan (part of clamav).  If clamscan returns 0, the message is virus
free.  If it returns 1, a virus was detected.  If it comes back >1, then
something else is going on (see the man page for clamscan).

> I do not really want to set up a mail fetch step unless it's really
> required. I just hate to have more and more stuff running on my boxes.

No need to.  The above works.
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