Off Topic Request

Stefan Persson reimersholme at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 16 16:54:18 CEST 2002


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Schartau" <michael.schartau at swipnet.se>
To: <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 7:55 AM
Subject: Re: Off Topic Request

>Off Topic RequestI dont think the wirus is sent through dcml, but from an
individual sender . I have not recived any >anyhowe.
>Perhaps You should get a new hotmail-account (or simullar) for your
dcml-mail.

I have also received the Klez virus several times recently. However, I
believe that they are sent from some individual (and not through DCML).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sigvald Grøsfjeld jr." <sigvald4 at yahoo.no>
To: "DCML" <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: Off Topic Request

> By the way, do anyone here know if will be possible to
> include a virus check in DCMLs central system som that
> all mails provided by DCML can be virus-free?

That way some non-infected messages might be wrongly sorted out.


----- Original Message -----
From: <cwiljes at bol.de>
To: <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 12:04 PM
Subject: AW: Off Topic Request

> The KLEZ worm collects email addresses from personal adress books and
> resends itself with random adresses from its acquired eMail collection.
This
> means that any mail with a KLEZ-infected attachement probably was not sent
> from the eMail account which is displayed. So your infected DCML-mails
> probably were not sent by DCML.

I remember that a virus was sent through DCML several years ago. At that
time I think Per added a feature so that it wasn't possible to send "large"
messages to DCML. I don't know how large a "large" message is, but the Klez
virus is around 120-130 kB, and would probably be too large for DCML.

So even if the address the mail was sent from were a member of DCML, the
message wouldn't arrive to the list.

Stefan



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