Re: AV "feature" does more DDoS than Sobig

[madsaxon <madsaxon () direcway com>]

At 10:05 AM 8/28/03 -0300, Fabio Gomes de Souza wrote:

> Anti-virus products are causing more harm than the Sobig Worm.

> The problem is that many e-mail virus scanners send a "You are infected" 
> reply to the address contained in the "From" header. Since the messages 
> are spoofed, the inoccent, uninfected user "A" is flooded by automatic 
> complaints from "C","D","E" regarding the virus that "B" sends.

I agree. Any sort of automated response based on perceived sender
IP address is not only brain-dead, but irresponsible. It does nothing
but compound the problem and needs to be curtailed.  Now.

m5x

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