From: dagbrown@... (Dave Brown)
Date: 2003-09-21T07:04:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Viruses

In article <3F6B658C.8050405@earthlink.net>,
Michael Garriss  <mgarriss@earthlink.net> wrote:
: [virtual rotten apple flies though the air]  I was justing think that!  
: So let's see the ruby version someone.....this could be a learning 
: experience for me as I have no POP3 knowledge at all.

Oh, not hard.

#------------------------------------------------------------------------
require 'net/pop'
require 'gurgitate-mail' # grab it from rubyforge, but it's not very good :-)

server='put_your_server_here'
username='put_your_username_here'
password='put_your_password_here'  # Danger danger danger!

Net::POP3.start(server,'pop3',username,password) do |p|
    p.mails.each do |m|
        # No need to grab the entire message, so just get the
        # first 500 lines.  Should speed things up a bit for the
        # dialup folks.
        g=Gurgitate::Gurgitate.new(m.top(500).gsub(/\r/,''))
        if g.body =~ /TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA\/\/8AALgAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAA/ then
            print "Virus from #{g.from} deleted\n"
            m.delete()
        else
            print "Email from #{g.from} is virus-free!\n"
        end
    end
end
#------------------------------------------------------------------------

--Dave