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Administrivia: Virus scanners and advance notice of slowness

Subject: Administrivia: Virus scanners and advance notice of slowness
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:22:05 +1000
Virus scanners

Amit's most recent post contained some badness, which triggered some anti-virus systems to delete the post and try to post to the main webappsec address. If you do not have a copy of Amit's post, then you will need to find it the hard way as it's a fantastic paper and you should read it. Use your favorite search engine:

"Exploiting the XmlHttpRequest object in IE" part II

If your virus scanner replies to mail lists, it is incorrectly configured. Virus scanners should *never* send out a bounce to mail lists. Lame virus scanners compound the effect of a virus' traffic DDoS through an (unintentional but well meaning) amplification attack. Please fix your virus scanners now. I will not be approving any of these "notices" and they WILL bounce in a week's time.


Advance notice of slowness

I am attending OWASP EU next week as a speaker. This means a 30+ hour flight as I'm about as far away from the conference as you can get without starting to fly back the other way. Therefore, don't expect much in the way of moderation next weekend, nor June 5-7 when I return back to Australia, and moderation may be patchy in between.

On a shameless plug note, I'll be blogging like crazy whilst I'm away, so if you like to read about cool junkets^H^H^H^H^H^H events you should attend, you can do so here:

http://www.greebo.net/

thanks,
Andrew

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