Re: Computer Virus

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

Perhaps you should tighten your mail filters to only exclude regs that refer to dangerous keys. There's only a dozen or so,
documented by MS, and if you were still concerned, you could filter reg files with key values containing .bat, .exe & .com as well.
That's pretty likely to cover most scenarios.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Postmaster" <postmaster@magwien.gv.at>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: Computer Virus


> REGs are not allowed!
> postmaster@magwien.gv.at
>
>
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > THIS WAS NOT A VIRUS.  GET A CLUE.
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:24:42PM +0100, Mailer-Daemon@magwien.gv.at wrote:
> > >Achtung, die von Ihnen versandte Mail enthaelt entweder
> > >einen Computer Virus oder mindestens eine beigefuegte Datei des Typs
> > >BAT, CHM, CMD, COM, CPL, EXE, HLP, INF, INS, ISP, JAR, JS, JSE, LNK, MDB, MDE,
> > >MSC, MSI, MSP, MST, OCX, PIF, PL, REG, SCR, SCT, SHB, SHS, VB, VBE, VBS, WSC,
> > >WSF, WSH
> > >und wurde daher nicht an den Empfaenger weitergeleitet.
> > >
> > >Wenn Sie Dateien der genannten Typen senden wollen, koennen Sie
> > >diese innerhalb einer ZIP oder TAR Datei, welche Sie Ihrer Mail
> > >beifuegen, uebertragen.
> > >
> > >Attention, your mail contains either a computer virus or one of
> > >the following attachment types:
> > >BAT, CHM, CMD, COM, CPL, EXE, HLP, INF, INS, ISP, JAR, JS, JSE, LNK, MDB, MDE,
> > >MSC, MSI, MSP, MST, OCX, PIF, PL, REG, SCR, SCT, SHB, SHS, VB, VBE, VBS, WSC,
> > >WSF, WSH.
> > >These types are not delivered to the final recipients. If you want
> > >to send one of these types, please encode them as ZIP or TAR files.
> > >
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