Anyway to Kill virus email on my Host Mailbox automatically?

[Dennis]

In the last two days I've been unindated with 100+ virus .pif and .scr
attachment emails from forged return addresses.

The real address from the headers is SANJIVSA (dt140n11.tampabay.rr.com
[24.92.192.17]) for all the virus emails.

I emailed (e-mail address removed) over ten times with copies and headers of the virus email
but to no avail. They just ignore.

I would like to install a perl program on the Unix host computer that would
search the headers of all incoming emails that are put into my mail box and
delete the email with selected headers that I choose.

My Host computer is a Unix box and I have access to the mail client. How would
I go about installing a perl program to do the above?

TIA for any help or direction you can give me.

Dennis

 

[James Willmore]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 23:40:44 -0500

In the last two days I've been unindated with 100+ virus .pif and
.scr attachment emails from forged return addresses.

So have a lot of places.

The real address from the headers is SANJIVSA
(dt140n11.tampabay.rr.com[24.92.192.17]) for all the virus emails.

I emailed (e-mail address removed) over ten times with copies and headers of the
virus email but to no avail. They just ignore.

Probably trying to deal with the influx of "junk" out there within the
last two weeks - give it time

I would like to install a perl program on the Unix host computer
that would search the headers of all incoming emails that are put
into my mail box and delete the email with selected headers that I
choose.

My Host computer is a Unix box and I have access to the mail client.
How would
I go about installing a perl program to do the above?

TIA for any help or direction you can give me.

My suggestion is to install spamassassin. Do NOT just blindly add the
domain to your blacklist. Depending on what's in the header and/or
body of the message, you may not need to go that far. Read the
directions for installing spammassassin. And if you need further
direction, they have a mailing list and FAQ you can look over.

The URL is:
http://spamassassin.rediris.es/index.html

HTH

Jim

 

[David Efflandt]

In the last two days I've been unindated with 100+ virus .pif and .scr
attachment emails from forged return addresses.

The real address from the headers is SANJIVSA (dt140n11.tampabay.rr.com
[24.92.192.17]) for all the virus emails.

I emailed (e-mail address removed) over ten times with copies and headers of the virus email
but to no avail. They just ignore.

I would like to install a perl program on the Unix host computer that would
search the headers of all incoming emails that are put into my mail box and
delete the email with selected headers that I choose.

My Host computer is a Unix box and I have access to the mail client. How would
I go about installing a perl program to do the above?

So configure procmail recipes (see 'man procmail' and 'man procmailex').
The following .procmairc recipes get rid of a bunch of worms.

:0
* ^Content-Transfer-Encoding:.*base64
* name=.*\.(bat|exe|pif|scr|vbs)
$TRASH

:0 B
* ^Content-Transfer-Encoding:.*base64
{
:0 B
* name=.*\.(bat|exe|pif|scr|vbs)
$TRASH

:0 B
* name=.*your_details\.zip
$TRASH
}