Nico Kadel-Garcia
07-24-2004, 09:02 PM
Jem Berkes wrote:
> A request to mail system admins: if you have virus scanners or some sort of
> worm/attachment blocking mechanism, please configure it to NOT send notices
> back to the sender that they sent a virus.
>
> These modern windows worms all forge the sender anyway. There are people
> like me who, unfortunately, have their addresses on too many windows
> users' address books and my inbox is flooded with "you sent a virus"
> notices. The notices just add to network congestion, and these are an
> avoidable bounce.
Some of them do a nice job of decrypting the header to find the *REAL*
IP address sending the spew. "sanitizer" does a nice job, although I'd
be happy to find one that takes less hand-tuning.
> A request to mail system admins: if you have virus scanners or some sort of
> worm/attachment blocking mechanism, please configure it to NOT send notices
> back to the sender that they sent a virus.
>
> These modern windows worms all forge the sender anyway. There are people
> like me who, unfortunately, have their addresses on too many windows
> users' address books and my inbox is flooded with "you sent a virus"
> notices. The notices just add to network congestion, and these are an
> avoidable bounce.
Some of them do a nice job of decrypting the header to find the *REAL*
IP address sending the spew. "sanitizer" does a nice job, although I'd
be happy to find one that takes less hand-tuning.