Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 22:25:24 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-idd AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Viruses in the cygwin mail lists
Message-ID: <20030802022524.GA11631@redhat.com>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <20030801044339 DOT GA18462 AT redhat DOT com> <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAzKqZwgE0Ekq6HjOKEbfGv8KAAAAQAAAAhw1Pxq/N5kmJQrmdfWsg8wEAAAAA AT acm DOT org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAzKqZwgE0Ekq6HjOKEbfGv8KAAAAQAAAAhw1Pxq/N5kmJQrmdfWsg8wEAAAAA@acm.org>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:15:47PM -0500, guenter strubinsky wrote:
>I haven't received a single virus so far. I assume that this is either a
>moderated list -but it's too quick for that- or a virus and spam scanner
>runs through the contributions before releasing it.
>
>It did never occur to me:
>
>I had alone about 50 scans, around 20 crude IIS oriented attacks, 8 codered
>and 4 apache attacks over the last 2 weeks. No idea about sp*m and viruses
>sent to me since it's filtered externally. But this list is probably a
>target from many sides.
>
>This list is relatively free of spam AND totally free of viruses.

Thanks.  I work hard at keeping the spam filters up-to-date.  The spam
filter went through a relatively major overhaul recently and it has been
much better at weeding out the crap.  The aaaspam mailing list is
also getting quite a bit of traffic these days, which also helps in
blocking offenders.

Unfortunately, there are still some viruses and spam that slip through.
I delete them from the archives when I notice them.

The message that started this thread contained a spreadsheet (?!) which
showed some viruses in the automake (?!) mailing list from 2001 (?!).
While I don't think that this kind of email is appropriate for the
cygwin mailing list in general, discussion of automake mailing list
viruses is *clearly* off-topic.
--
Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email.
Special for spam email harvesters: send email to aaaspam AT sourceware DOT org
and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/