[bmw] adminsitrivia: Ha, Ha, Ha ... no wait, that's not funny

[Richard Welty <rwelty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

some of you may have observed a sudden fall off in traffic from digest.net
this afternoon.

i have just finished diagnosing the problem. there is a Denial of Service
attack targeted at slightly older version of ClamAntiVirus, and my server
was running such a slightly older version.

i've shut down clamd for the time being until i get my copy up to date.
i recommend that any digest readers using clamav check; the DOS is
possible with versions of ClamAV through 0.65, and possibly some
variants of 0.66. the newest version is 0.67-1, ask for it by name,
er, number.

this shouldn't present any danger to digest readers from my server;
other methods are used to clean the email to the list quite thoroughly
before it goes out.

followups on this subject should probably go to offtopic.

richard
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Richard Welty                                         rwelty@domain.elided
Averill Park Networking                                         518-573-7592
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