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On a more serious note are there any indications that vista will improve the situation (i.e from beta tests) or will it just be the same old story, updgrade and within a few weeks of launch a new stream of virus's makes an entrance and the situation is no different, MS are meant to have improved security, is vista a re-write or just XP with addons. In which case I would guess the answer would be no as the inherant problems are still there. paul Simon Avery wrote: >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