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Re: other virus damages/costs.....(hello skynet.be ?)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Sullivan)
Mon Feb 2 09:26:33 2004

Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 00:25:42 +1000
From: Matthew Sullivan <matthew@sorbs.net>
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402020838160.1212-100000@redhat1.mmaero.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


jlewis@lewis.org wrote:

> 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.
>  
>
Already thought about it (and dismissed it)

>But this really doesn't seem to be NANOG material.  Try spam-l or 
>spamtools.
>  
>
It could be - it is a network issue - particually where so many people 
feel the need to reply with virus 'reports'...  I know the virus mails 
and the virus reports certainly caused some issues network wise at 
Telstra recently.

/ Mat



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