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Re: AV "feature" does more DDoS than Sobig
From: David Vasil <vasil () cs utk edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:33:26 -0400
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:05:20AM -0300, Fabio Gomes de Souza <bugtraq () gs2 com br> wrote:
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.
Some mail scanning utilities such as amavisd-new allow you to specify a regex pattern of virus names that should not generate the "You are Infected" warnings you mention. This way you can specify what viruses spoof the return address so that you are not sending out a mail each time the virus is detected. If all admins would properly configure their MTA's then this would not be a problem. -Dave
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- RE: AV "feature" does more DDoS than Sobig Ron DuFresne (Aug 28)
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- Re: AV "feature" does more DDoS than Sobig David Vasil (Aug 28)
- Re: AV "feature" does more DDoS than Sobig Darren Reed (Aug 28)
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- Re: AV "feature" does more DDoS than Sobig William Warren (Aug 28)
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