[Esa-l] Re: UUCP sanitizer

Robert Mc Donald robby at obsidian.co.za
Tue Jan 30 23:14:49 PST 2001


Well we could just use the poisened file and grep through the whole
directory and delete any matches, that would stop the "known" viruses but
wouldn't do the filename renaming or the quarentining. 

Sounds like a good idea though.

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Miguel Louro wrote:

> Hi there,
> Was just thinking, Would it be possible to hack the sanitizer to scan mail
> in a UUCP host`s spooled mail, it would be a great for UUCP main nodes to
> eliminate the problem before it reaches their offline mail servers before
> its spooled there. Would this be difficult to hack together?  Any comments
> on this would be apreciated.  :)
> I have a feeling that this wouldnt be too difficult to do.
> 
> Kind regards
> Miggie
> 
> 




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