[plug] virus breaks through onto list

[Leon Brooks]

On Wed, 12 May 2004 00:04, Sol Hanna wrote:
> Mondo embarrassment! I run an email list using Mailman with nearly
> 900 subscribers. It's a news announcement list which only 8 people
> can post to. Only a couple of hours ago a mail got sent to this list
> with my email address in the "From:" field and FxSasser.zip as an
> attachment. Yikes! :(
>
> I've just reduced the allowable body length down from 40kb to 5kb
> which I hope will catch anything with an attachment. But does anyone
> have any suggestions of how I can block anything with an attachment
> from getting to this list?

Just run all mail through ClamAV. It's free, and it works well. It saves 
me a few score deletes every day.

    http://clamav.elektrapro.com/

Cheers; Leon