Re: Virus Intercepted

[farna@xxxxxxx]

Yes, just what you said... almost. This is the list virus scanning software at work. Someone sent the list server a message addressed to the list with a virus in it. The server passes the message stating that it intercepted a message on to the list instead of the infected message. This lets you know what virus it found, and the domain it came from. If it's your domain you might want to check your machine! I suspect a recent virus onslaught has been affecting the list server. That's what I was told the last time the list went down. I don't know if the server was specifically targetted or other big servers are having the same problems. It sounded to me that their protection (for their own machines) was a little weak. Appearently their servers are MS based machines, not UNIX flavored, which are much less susceptible to attack -- so far. It's only a matter of time before malicious hackers figure out the Internet is mostly run by UNIX/LINUX machines even though most connected to !
 it are MS based! 

On March 9, 2006 Bob Rapp wrote:

> This message gets sent from the list to my mailbox about every day or so.
> Is anyone else experiencing the same problem?  It appears that a virus is
> attempting to be sent to my mailbox via the list.  Here is what it says:
> 
> A message you sent to
> <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> contained HTML.Phishing.Auction-101 and has not been delivered.
> 
> The infected machine is likely to be here:
> from dns.hittaka.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
> by amc-list.com.ittaka.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2A2ihQx031366
> for <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:44:43 +0800


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