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Colin James wrote: > I am glad I use Linux as for some reason today I have been targeted with > lots of viruses through my email. I have no idea why these have started > coming through as I am very careful where I put my email address. This > is one the messages I received with a virus attached. Yes - seems to be a new round of worms that are getting past many isp anti-virus filters. I installed clamav onto my debian box last week alongside spamassassin. Within 24 hours it had picked out three new virus variants and 12 different phishing emails - all of which had gotten past Eclipse's virus scanning. I was very impressed by that, I recommend it. (SA, after more tweaking, is now identifying 95% of all incoming email as spam, and it's not done a false positive yet. Much is coming to email addresses that have never been published, so must either have been lifted from a contact's address book during a virus attack, or were lifted from the mail relay's exim vhosts on a hosted server.) I'm starting to hear rumours that some companies are abanding email completely as they can't sort the wheat from the chaff - and given the poor response from email queries I've had with various companies lately, I can believe it. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html