West Dorset Internet currently protect all emails sent and received via our mail servers from the latest viruses out. We run an automated virus protection utility that is updated on a daily basis to provide the best possible protection.
We cannot guarantee 100% protection but as to date have have no virus pass undetected through our systems. Below is a description of our virus protection and a brief description of the more common viruses:
Important: This site is here to inform our customers (& our customers clients, friends & family) about how our email services run, and to demonstrate compliance with the UK RIP Act, Human Rights Act and Data Protection Act.
All email passing through our Mail Servers based in Abbotsbury are checked for:
- Illegal Relays - ie People who are not our customers using our email servers. This is a common abuse and all competent ISPs perform this check. No email is allowed through our systems that is from an illegal relay. If you are a customer of WDI and need to use a relay please advise our Technical Support and they can arrange for it.
- Viruses and Trojan Horse software - If a virus is found the offending email is placed in a quarantine area and both the sender and the receiver are informed. We cannot guarantee to identify and remove all viruses, but we do our best. This should be considered a first line of defence and everyone should assume that viruses will always get through.
- Spam - Email from known spam sources is removed. As with viruses this is not a foolproof process. We use the Orbs databases http://www.mail-abuse.org to identify spam.
Anybody with a domain or email address held at WDI can have messages appended to all outbound and or inbound email. If you are interested in having this service on your domain or you would like this service to be turned off, please contact: Technical Support.
Obviously no anti virus system is infallible, however we make every effort to ensure that our email server has the latest anti viral databases in place. Our viral database is updated daily. The system uses Sendmail 8.11.2 to feed email through a virus checker. We currently employ the Kaspersky Labs Anti Virus Protection Software. Information on this can be found at: http://www.avp.ru/.
Search For Information on virus / trojan here.
New Kids On Our Block:
- I-Worm.HomePage - First seen on our system on 9 May 2001, release date: 9 May 2001. This is internet worm that widely spread on 9 May 2001. The worm is written in Visual Basic Script language (VBS) and spreads as "homepage.HTML.vbs" file attached to email message. That is an usual Loveletter-like VBS worm, but it is encrypted (encoded) to bypass heuristic...
- I-Worm.Badtrans - First seen on our system on 18 April 2001. This is a worm spreading under Win32 systems. The virus sends e-mail messages with infected attached files, as well as installs a spying Trojan component to steal information from infected systems. The worm was discovered in-the-wild on April 12 2001. The worm itself is a Win32.
- I-Worm.Magistr - This is a very dangerous memory resident Win32 worm combined with virus infection routines. It spreads to Internet with infected emails, infects Windows executable files on affected machine (local machine) and is able to spread itself over local network.
- I-Worm.Hybris - This is an Internet worm that spreads attached to e-mail messages. The worm works under Win32 systems only. The worm contains components (plugins) in its code that are executed depending on the worm's needs, and these components can be upgraded from an Internet Web site.
- I-Worm.Magistr - This is a very dangerous memory resident Win32 worm combined with virus infection routines. It spreads to Internet with infected emails, infects Windows executable files on affected machine (local machine) and is able to spread itself over local network.
- I-Worm.KakWorm - This worm is written in the Java Script language, which, for spreading, uses MS Outlook Express. The worm does not attach itself to messages as regular worm viruses do, but embeds its body in a message as a script program.
- I-Worm.MTX - This is a virus-worm spreading under Win32 systems. The virus infects Win32 executable files, attempts to send e-mail messages with infected attached files, as well as installs a backdoor component to download and spawn "plugins" on an affected system. The worm caused a global epidemic from September to October 2000.
- I-Worm.Badtrans - First seen on our system on 18 April 2001. This is a worm spreading under Win32 systems. The virus sends e-mail messages with infected attached files, as well as installs a spying Trojan component to steal information from infected systems. The worm was discovered in-the-wild on April 12 2001. The worm itself is a Win32.
Hoax Virus: These usually come in the form of email warning about virus. They sometimes suggest steps to cure the hoax, this usually leads to some sort of damage to the system that has retrieved the warning. If you receive a virus warning the chances are it is a hoax. The person sending the hoax is probably unaware.
- SULFNBK Is a Hoax - Warnings about the pseudo-virus began spreading two weeks ago, causing a real scare amongst users. As indicated in the message’s text concerning the "virus," it contains a SULFNBK.EXE file that is programmed to activate the destructive payload on June 1. As is typical when a virus hoax is making the rounds, it is reported that not one anti-virus program is able to detect this "virus"; therefore, the only means of ridding a computer of this threat is to erase the SULFNBK.EXE virus-carrying file.