[60945] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Butterworth)
Wed Aug 20 11:04:41 2003
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:00:27 +0100 (BST)
From: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > Considering the amount of email traffic generated by responding to
> > forged virus laden email from culprits like sobig should email virus
> > scanning systems be configured to send notifications back to
> > sender or not?
If your scanner doesn't know if a virus forges addresses, and hence no
point replying, then bin it and buy a proper one
brandon
