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Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:54:59 -0400
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:25:28 EDT, Joe Maimon <jmaimon () ttec com> said:
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?
It isn't like the A/V vendors can't put a single bit in the description that says "uses real address" or "uses forged address" and only send a notification when the "real" bit is set. However, a lot of them seem to be more interested in pumping out PR and FUD. Worst part is if one of them had been smart, they'd have invented such a bit, patented it, and then shipped "New! Improved! Now with less confusing messages", and used the patent to make sure nobody else did. Now *that* would be a selling point for their product, but noooo... ;) They've missed their chance. Feel free to cite this e-mail as prior art if somebody tries it now... ;)
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- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Pascal Gloor (Aug 20)
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- 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)
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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)
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Jim Deleskie (Aug 20)
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Mark Segal (Aug 20)