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RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?
From: "John Ferriby" <john () ferriby com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:32:24 -0400
Considering the amount of email traffic generated by responding to forged virus laden email from culprits like sobig should email virus scanning systems be configured to send notifications back to sender or not?
IMO: No. I have had around 200 of these alerts this morning alone, most of which originate from POSTMASTER@somedomain which received email using my forged address. I can't blithely ignore the postmaster, but I'm sorely tempted to filter them. Side note: I'm seeing about a 20x increase in smtp traffic over the daily norm. -John
Current thread:
- To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Joe Maimon (Aug 20)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Pascal Gloor (Aug 20)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Stephen J. Wilcox (Aug 20)
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? John Ferriby (Aug 20)
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Matthew Kaufman (Aug 20)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 20)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? D'Arcy J.M. Cain (Aug 20)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Gerardo A. Gregory (Aug 20)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Leo Bicknell (Aug 20)
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- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Leo Bicknell (Aug 20)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Joe Maimon (Aug 20)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Daniel Senie (Aug 20)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Eric A. Hall (Aug 20)
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- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Gregory Hicks (Aug 20)