At 03:45 PM 3/2/2004, Tom Holub wrote:
>I would vote for completely dropping the messages. People are confused
>enough about this whole virus problem, and there's very little legitimate
>reason to send .zip attachments.
i've received quite a few completely legitimate .zip files containing
documents sent by colleagues. there's nothing illegitimate about .zip
files per se.
i can understand the desire to drop .zip attachments temporarily while
the current virus is so prevalent, but i do think the recipient should
be noitified. an even better solution would be to not deliver the at-
tachment, cache it somewhere, and send the recipient a notification so
that s/he could fetch it, if s/he knows it to be safe (perhaps after
checking with the sender). i believe one of the other UC campuses has
a system like that, though i can't recall which campus.
ken
>On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 03:26:29PM -0800, John Ives wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be safer to just drop the attachments with a message (like
>> the current deleted because of virus message), that way if something
>> legitimate is sent, the recipient at least knows what happened and why.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Aron Roberts wrote:
>>
>> > Messages containing ZIP file attachments will soon be blocked on
>> > the CalMail email system, at least temporarily.
>> >
>> > From what I understand, messages with virus-containing attachments
>> > purporting to come from "The Berkeley.edu Team" and support@socrates,
>> > and using various techniques of social engineering -- such as telling
>> > users that important instructions are included in these attachments,
>> > or warning users that their accounts will be deactivated unless they
>> > open these attachments -- have started appearing.
>> >
>> > This situation is being investigated, and as an interim protective
>> > measure, messages containing ZIP files will temporarily be blocked.
>> >
>> > Aron Roberts
>> > Workstation Software Support Group
>> > (for the CalMail team)
>> > -------------------------------------
>> > Sent via the ucb-security mailing list.
>> >
>>
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