On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Brian Wilson wrote:
Quoting Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>:
I am curious how network operators are dealing with the latest w32/bagle variants which seem particularly evil.
I am also interested in what network/mail folks are doing about this situation. Blocking all zip files at the mail level is next to impossible (since of course when we started blocking executable files, we told people to zip up executables) and since business can't be taken care of without someone requiring zip files to pass. I will be the first to admit that using mail as a file transfer protocol isn't the way to go, but getting people to realize that (and forcing them to change) is next to impossible.
Blocking all zip/exe/pif/etc files - seems to work pretty well here - granted, it's on a smaller scale (~6k users, ~50k emails/day, ~7k mails rejected/day, ~7k spam filtered/day) - d. -- Dominic J. Eidson "Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!" - Gimli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.the-infinite.org/