Re: [LUG] mod_age and academic list hit by virus in race period

[Pete Hatton <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Simon Waters wrote:

> As regards Word documents, are viruses still a problem? (You can
> tell I've been doing *nix for too long) I thought this was
> largely killed with the release of Word 97. I know a few
> weaknesses have been found since in Office's defences, but I've
> only seen the over spill of OE and IIS viruses from M$.

I've not seen or heard of a word virus for years, seems the virus writers
are targetting OE/O security.  (And I'll confess to using Outlook 2000 a
lot!)  I've probably mentioned before that I use a procmail filter which
mangles the file extension so it can't execute and disables any suspect
HTML code in HTML emails.  
http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security.html

> I think for this group worms that spread by FTP should be the
> big worry. I still see a significant amount of scanning for port
> 21, and everything points to this being mainly a Linux problem.

Probably scanning for wu-ftpd FTP server's which I know has a bad record 
for security holes.  I hope Redhat is still not shipping this as default.

Pete Hatton
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