[67169] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: antivirus in smtp, good or bad?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Tue Feb 3 17:29:20 2004
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 10:10:43 -0800
To: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
From: JC Dill <nanog@vo.cnchost.com>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.2.20040203091227.0319f470@mail.amaranth.net>
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At 06:16 AM 2/3/2004, Daniel Senie wrote:
>Many viruses (most of the recent ones) forge the sender information.
It seems to me that this can be replaced with "Today's viruses almost
invariably forge the sender information." and that it no longer makes any
sense whatsoever to send a virus alert notice to the address indicated in
the "from" header.
Can anyone remember the last time they encountered a virus that *didn't*
forge the sender information? IIRC, the last one I saw was an AnnaK virus,
~3 years ago.
jc
