Script to remove SoBig/F virus from POP3 mailbox

[Alex]

Under the gun, I've written a Python script to delete emails containing this 
latest virus/worm (Sobig-F) from a POP3 mailbox.

http://www.tranzoa.com/extras.htm#remove_email_virus

The script is a quick-and-dirty, no question, but it's sure doing the job on 
megabytes of garbage without too much bandwidth use (it gets the top 150 text 
lines of the emails).

Interestingly enough, it shows that most of the bad email we're getting can be 
traced back to a few IP addresses. (Are you listening, 206.228.159.186 and 
212.234.58.156 and 81.96.121.126?) That fact indicates that if an ISP or net 
admin were to pull the plug on a just a few connections, the net would lose a 
lot of wasted bytes and traffic.

Alex