[Esd-l] ANN: Sanitizer 1.133 released

[John D. Hardin]

On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Brett Glass wrote:

> >Can you give me a useful example of a backreference in a filespec?
> 
> Any worm that generates names with repeating characters or patterns.
> There are a few; I was thinking of coding them in.

I have a testbed for that sort of thing. Give me a sample filename and
a suggested spec and I'll try it out. If it doesn't work I'll try to
get it to work.
 
> By the way, one feature I'd like to see in the "poisoned" list: a
> second field, after the file name, that lets you (optionally) tag
> the poisoned name with a message to be used when the name is
> discovered. This would be useful to identify worms to the
> administrator and/or a person receiving an automatic response.
> Right now, my local recipes generate such strings but the general
> poisoning mechanism does not.

In the 2.0 experimental code the format for the policy file includes a
slot for specifying a custom response file for a given spec. I'll
probably implement that soon as a more general solution rather than
just a single string.

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