Re: Stopping the plague on Dia list

[Mark Crane <cranema uvsc edu>]

Is it possible to have the list management software suppress messages 
with attachments (at least for now?)


On Jan 30, 2004, at 3:26 AM, Marco Contenti wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> it seems that these days a real plague is spreading around the Net, and
> listst like the Dia list can be a vehicle for that, since every 
> message is
> received by hundreds (?) of subscribers.
> Well, to date there are three messages with viral content on the list. 
> They
> weren't actually sent by the person whose address is shown as sender. 
> The
> virus takes it randomly from the address book of the victim (these 
> days I'm
> getting a lot of replies to messages I never sent). Anyway this can 
> help
> finding the message source, so I would ask every Dia-list subscriber 
> to do a
> quick check as follows.
>
> If all of the following apply:
>
> - you mail the Dia list using a computer running Windows
>
> - you are using the old Dia list address dia-list@lysator.liu.se
>
> - your address book contains at least one of the following addresses:
>   hfiguiere@teaser.fr; sdteffen@web.de; lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu
>
> then there is good chance that your computer got infected.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Marco
>
> _______________________________________________
> Dia-list mailing list
> Dia-list@gnome.org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
> FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html
> Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
>