 | | | Status | Status 2004-02-02 - By Rick Stevens
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Mark Knecht wrote:
> >The virus works by infecting Outlook mail clients, randomly selecting an
> >address from their address book to be used as the "sending " address,
> >then sends the mail to all other addresses in the book. So, someone
> >who DOES have windows and outlook AND has my email address in their
> >address book is infected and sending mail as if it were me.
> >
> >Before you go and start accusing people, you 'd better get your
> >facts right.
>
>
> Darn right!
>
> My question in this area is that I 'm a Linux/Evolution user for email but
> run two Windows boxes for my audio recording. I do not run a mail server. I
> know I cannot be infected, at least today. If an email arrives and has an
> infected attachment I 'd like to do two things:
>
> 1) Since I may possibly be moving the attachment to a Windows box on my
> network later, I don 't want to save an attachment with a virus.
>
> 2) I 'd like to be a good citizen and kill the attachment in case it 's
> something that I would forward to someone else who may very likely be a
> Windows/Outlook user.
>
> How can I do this in Evolution?
Get ClamAV and add a filter to your incoming mail that forces it through
clamscan (part of clamav). If clamscan returns 0, the message is virus
free. If it returns 1, a virus was detected. If it comes back >1, then
something else is going on (see the man page for clamscan).
> I do not really want to set up a mail fetch step unless it 's really
> required. I just hate to have more and more stuff running on my boxes.
No need to. The above works.
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