[Gllug] Virus Alert

[Stephen Harker]

On Friday 22 August 2003 02:01, Nix wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Stephen Harker spake:
> > On Thursday 21 August 2003 05:35, virus.admin at sap.com wrote:
> >> The mail message (file: details.pif) you sent to
> >> wolf.hengevoss at sap-ag.de contained a virus or hoax (WORM_SOBIG.F).
> >> Please clean your mail traffic, before sending to SAP AG. Regards SAP
> >> Internet Services.
> >
> > Shit I'm glad I run Sophos Mail Monitor on the email gateway at work. I
> > spend 5 minutes updating the engine each month and it updates itself
> > every hour from a cron job. We haven't had a single one of the bastards
> > get through.
>
> `These bastards' being erroneous notifications of infection from idiot
> worm filters? :)

Well. No. I meant the viruses themselves. I think... (...checks...) 
Yes. The sysadmin gets a notification that a message has been quarantined but 
thats all. Errr... Umm.... Oh hang on...
Thats got me thinking. Thanks.
SteveH


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