[67086] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: other virus damages/costs.....(hello skynet.be ?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jlewis@lewis.org)
Mon Feb 2 08:43:23 2004
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 08:42:53 -0500 (EST)
From: jlewis@lewis.org
To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040202074807.0532dfa8@209.112.4.2>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> Looking at my disk stats, my mail storage spool has grown by 15% in the
> past week not due the deluge of viruses which I can block and reject, but
> in large part to those idiotic "Hi, I am sorry in a happy idiotic way to
> inform you that the message you sent has a virus" messages.... As almost
> all of them forge their email address, what is the point of warning the
> "sender." Even better, I wake up this am to 285 (and growing) messages
> below telling me that someone at skynet is trying to send me a virus
> message and it cc's 64 other people. Nice.
Enough people are sufficiently annoyed by antivirus
notifications/advertisements that they're starting to ask for DNSBLs of
systems that send them. I suspect before long, there will be some.
But this really doesn't seem to be NANOG material. Try spam-l or
spamtools.
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