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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada
From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk_-at-_chinet.com>
To: flora-admin-help_-at-_flora.ottawa.on.ca
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 10:33:29 -0500 (CDT)
On 07/18/02, at 10:12am -0400, Russell McOrmond <russell@flora.ca> wrote: > Things are getting worse all the time with the Microsoft Viruses and >general SPAM. I am in the process of investigating EXIM ><http://www.exim.org/> as a replacement for Sendmail. The filtering with >EXIM is much easier to configure than with Sendmail, which will allow me >to configure more site-wide filtering rules. Russell, cannot procmail itself be used for site-wide incoming mail delivery? > The question becomes: what rules? Please block HTML alternate-part attachments. >One I want to run is a filter which will simply disallow the sending of >any of the standard "executable" attachment types. How about uuencoded attachments? Any I get invariably are from trojan horse type thing. You want to send a reply informing people citing URLs with the steps to take to improve their own security so they are less vulnerable to trojans? Such as disabling Javascript processing: How to disable Jscripting in OE 4 and OE 5 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb\;EN-US\;q192846 How to disable in OE 5, article http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2000_05_12_ii_oe5.html We're using Spam Assassin on Chinet: http://www.spamassassin.org/ No global rules, but individually configured. Good way to get rid of all the Chinese and Taiwanese domains.
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