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.vsd is a visio drawing. Did you mean .vbs? We've quarantined a _bunch_ so far. -ls- Christian Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Just block .vsd files from coming in. Filter them all at the border (thanks > msft). > > I guess most of us are running unix based mailers so we dont get to see the > effects/affects of these great news worthy viruses. > > can anyone tell me one time they could not do their job cause they counldnt > read a .vsd file? > > If you look at the .vsd file, you see it is very easy to re-do, send some > other string and on its way it goes to destroy mail servers around the > world. Without blocking all .vsd files at the border, theses DOS attacks will > flood our emails over the next few weeks. > > just my two cents.... > > > > On Thu, 4 May 2000, Rodney Joffe wrote: > > > > > Symantec is unreachable (of course). > > > > Does anyone have any info on patches/fixes etc? > > > > Also, if you use sendmail, there is a patch available for Sendmail 8.9.x > > ... doesn't work with 8.10.x - available in the normal places - which > > will stop the virus at your gateway.. > > > > "Branden R. Williams" wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 4 May 2000, Branden R. Williams wrote: > > > > > > > Should you run it, you will lose any files of the following > > > > extensions. They will be renamed to filename.extension.vbs with a fresh > > > > copy of the replication part. > > > > > > Actually it is a fresh copy of the entire virus. Sorry for the confusion. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Branden R. Williams <[email protected]> > > > Vice President, Systems - NetVitality, Inc. > > > http://www.netvitality.net/ > > > Internet Commerce Specialists > > > > -- > > Rodney Joffe > > CenterGate Research Group, LLC. > > http://www.centergate.com > > "Technology so advanced, even we don't understand it!"(SM) > > > > >
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