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I work for MessageLabs [messagelabs.com] in Toronto, ON, Canada. I write spam filters, MTA software, high performance network software, string matching algorithms, and other cool stuff mostly in Perl and C.
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I work for MessageLabs [messagelabs.com] in Toronto, ON, Canada. I write spam filters, MTA software, high performance network software, string matching algorithms, and other cool stuff mostly in Perl and C.
Tuesday January 27, 2004
03:12 AM
Virus: MyDoom
This new big one is called "MyDoom". I've had over 2000 copies so far (though a lot appear to be corrupt). I think this might be a new record setter.
Virus: MyDoom
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Stupid Antivirus Email (Score:2)
But the biggest problem is not that. It's the stupid antivirus email to tell me that I am infected! I am not! This was a joe-job.
And the worst part is that I can develop a procmailrc filter for the virus mail, but not for the antivirus email.
If you are reading this and work for a company like Norton or Symantec, please tell someone how bad this is for all of us.
Re:Stupid Antivirus Email (Score:2)
I grew desperate during the last outbreak... the below worked pretty well. Remove spurious linebreaks as necessary. This was of course last year, when I still cared about having messages falsely flagged as crap-- now I would store them all safely into /dev/null.
* ^Subject: