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An unsolicited testimonial I received in my email:

Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 08:29:06 -0800
From: ******
To: *****
Cc: jhardin@wolfenet.com
Subject: Helpful E-mail for getting rid of Hybris and other net based  virii - system admins

Here's the deal:

I'm a network admin with a few mail servers running Sendmail 8.11.
E-mail security has ALWAYS been the highest priority on our security
checklist for invasion techniques.

Today we were battling with the Hybris worm, behind the scenes...

Point blank, we've stopped the following dead, even before the news
services caught on to the onslaught:

Melissa (all variants)
CIH
Hermes
Hybris
ProLin
MyRomeo
I Love You
Navidad
New Apt
Explore Zip
All VBS, SCR, CHM, PIF delivered virii
And more...

All I can say is: Jason[sic] Hardin's Procmail script
http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security.html

This script has saved myself, and our company well into the
ten-thousands of dollars of downtime, productivity, and overall
potential destruction by these viruses.  It's easy to use, and anyone
with a UNIX mail server and procmail should implement this (either
sitewide or per user).

Thanks!

n.b.: my name is John...


I can be contacted at <jhardin@impsec.org> - you could also visit my home page.


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