Re: Status

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Chris Hewitt wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> > My question in this area is that I'm a Linux/Evolution user for email but
> If you would recognise the email as "suspicious", and you read it under 
> linux, then I would think the easiest (and safest) thing is just to 
> delete the email.

That's the safest thing.  If you get a message with an attachment of ANY
sort, be suspicious.  If it came from someone you don't know, be DOUBLY
suspicious.  Don't look at it, just add it to your filters (if possible)
and throw the thing away.

> > 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.
> Would you be saving an attachment called "file.scr" or whatever (there 
> are quite a lot of different filenames being used) then moving it onto a 
> windows box?
>
> Or am I being too simplistic? I've had many instances of this virus come 
> in over the last week. They have all looked "suspicious" to me so have 
> just deleted them (then I get the autoresponder emails telling me that 
> I've sent them a virus, grrrr!)

The people who run the mail services should tag the message as belonging
to the MyDoom or Klez family (they all behave the same) and stop
bouncing them.  The fact that the sender address is bogus is well known
with these virii.  Just silently throw the message away and be done with
it.  That's what we do.
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