Script to remove SoBig/F virus from POP3 mailbox

[Alex]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     Alex> Under the gun, I've written a Python script to delete emails
>     Alex> containing this latest virus/worm (Sobig-F) from a POP3 mailbox.
> 
>     ...
> 
> I wrote something similar today for scrubbing Mailman 2.1 pending
> administrative requests.  I've killed over a thousand messages for the
> python-help mailing list so far.  It's crude, but saves a huge amount of
> pointing and clicking.  If you'd like a copy, drop me a note.  If enough
> people are interested and it seems like there's no other easy way to
> accomplish this with the usual Mailman means, I'll place a copy on my
> website.
> 
> Skip
> 

Heck, why not post? "When in doubt, ship it out." :)

Actually, my script was small enough to simply include in the newsgroup posting. 
But, it's usually handier for people to get things from the web site than trying 
to sort through old news messages.

As indicated in the private email, I solved two particular problems we had:

	1) Used TOP to read just the start of the emails so that our bandwidth wasn't 
saturated by full, virus emails.

	2) Deleted virus scanner bounces that contained the whole, danged virus file 
attachment.

Alex