Administrivia: Virus scanners and advance notice of slowness

[Andrew van der Stock <vanderaj () greebo net>]

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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