----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Lofstrom" <keithl@xxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 11:11 AM Subject: [RE] viruses from mailinglist > > Joolz <joolz@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > As you may recall, most modern viruses rewrite their "from" lines, and > add their package to email found on the infected machine. So while > the virus claims to be from the list, it is not. At least, I've not > received any virus-laden emails from fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx; after > the virus sees this message, I might :-( . > > What this probably means is that someone (perhaps someone you know) > is receiving this list on an infected windoze machine. Would all > you windoze users please check? Consider this another reason to > run Service Pack Fedora. I read this list on WinXP and Fedora at home, and over Earthlink web mail at work, and i've never seen an executable attachment. I've been reading the list about a month. Earthlink does do some filtering of spam before it reaches me, but can look in the "known spam" folder over web mail and I've seen nothing that looks like a virus.
