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Re: Possible virus sending large emails?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Tue, 28 May 2002 18:03:07 GMT
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Matthew Miller wrote:
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> Tim Courtney <tim@zacktron.com> wrote:
> > plays (like masquerading as a file to make you immune to it). Still, the
> > level of meaningless emails with random strings bugs me. I delete anything
> > suspicious. Oh well.
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> What bugs me the most is that I know that it's sending out forged e-mails
> apparently from my e-mail address, and there's not a thing I can do about
> it.
And I just got an e-mail from a mail server informing me that it had
removed a virus from an e-mail I "sent"...
Great, so how much additional traffic is going to be generated by this
virus?
I'm all in favor of mail servers stripping viruses from attachments, and
perhaps notifying someone makes sense, but probably in the case of a
virus like this, no notification should be sent.
Frank
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| (...) What the mail server should be doing isn't informing the "from", since the from header is easily forgable, as anyone who gets spam knows. What they should be doing is sending the warning back to the offending ISP or forwarder. You can verify (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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