[61028] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Muldoon)
Thu Aug 21 08:56:48 2003
From: Patrick Muldoon <doon@inoc.net>
To: <nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:55:58 -0400
In-Reply-To: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKGEOOFEAA.davids@webmaster.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On Thursday 21 August 2003 12:08 am, David Schwartz wrote:
> One of my pet peeves is anti-virus programs that detect a virus by name,
> so they should know that it always spoofs the sender address, still sendi=
ng
> messages referring to the "message you sent". I wonder if people receive
> those, scan for viruses, and then when they don't find one, do one of the
> following:
>
> 1) Take their computer to a computer store and pay for needless 'repairs=
',
> or
>
> 2) Reinstall/reformat rather than take chances.
3)Call up their Geeky son and panic...
<rant>
On this subject, my major pet peeve would be that at least 85% of the bounc=
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messages that I have seen coming back here, don't contain enough informatio=
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to figure out where the Original Message came from. How very nice of you to=
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tell me that my FreeBSD laptop is sending on A Windows Virus. Maybe if you=
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gave back the headers of the message, I could have a chance of guessing whi=
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of the unlucky people that has my e-mail in their address book might be=20
infected. Or when previously mentioned panicing Dad calls up, we can figur=
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out which one of his friends has it. But my vote is still a flag in the=20
avscanner that says virus forges from/ don't e-mail ...
</rant>
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Patrick Muldoon
Network/Software Engineer
INOC (http://www.inoc.net)
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Me no internet, only janitor, me just wax floors.
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