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RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?
From: "David Schwartz" <davids () webmaster com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 21:08:25 -0700
For virus scanners that run at other stages in the delivery process, the right decision about whether to do a notification or not is virus-dependent, if your anti-virus package supports it. Sobig almost always forges sender addresses, so it shouldn't get a reply, but some other viruses don't forge the sender, and should get the reply. Limiting the responses to once a week per sender or whatever may help, but only if the same sender gets forged a lot.
One of my pet peeves is anti-virus programs that detect a virus by name, so they should know that it always spoofs the sender address, still sending messages referring to the "message you sent". I wonder if people receive those, scan for viruses, and then when they don't find one, do one of the following: 1) Take their computer to a computer store and pay for needless 'repairs', or 2) Reinstall/reformat rather than take chances. At a very minimum, guys, adjust your messages to say "an email that appears to have been sent by you" or similar language to indicate that you don't know for sure who sent the message. DS
Current thread:
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?, (continued)
- 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)
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Tomas Daniska (Aug 20)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Damian Gerow (Aug 20)
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Brandon Butterworth (Aug 20)
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Wesley Vaux (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? Claire Kelly (Aug 20)
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Wesley Vaux (Aug 20)
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS (Aug 20)
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? David Schwartz (Aug 20)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Patrick Muldoon (Aug 21)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Joe Maimon (Aug 21)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Gerardo A. Gregory (Aug 21)
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? David Schwartz (Aug 20)