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Re: other virus damages/costs.....(hello skynet.be ?)


From: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 08:12:00 -0800


Looking at my disk stats, my mail storage spool has grown by 15% in the 
past week not due the deluge of viruses which I can block and reject, but 
in large part to those idiotic "Hi, I am sorry in a happy idiotic way to 
inform you that the message you sent has a virus" messages....  As almost 
all of them forge their email address, what is the point of warning the 
"sender."  Even better, I wake up this am to 285 (and growing) messages 
below telling me that someone at skynet is trying to send me a virus 
message and it cc's 64 other people.  Nice.

# MyDoom craziness
:
* ^Subject:.*(\
\{Spam\?\} Warning: E-mail viruses detected|\
Anti-Virus Notification|\
BANNED FILENAME|\
Disallowed attachment type found in sent message|\
File blocked - ScanMail for Lotus|\
InterScan NT Alert|\
Message deleted|\
NAV detected a virus|\
Norton AntiVirus detected|\
RAV AntiVirus scan|\
Returned due to virus|\
Skynet Mail Protection|\
Symantec AntiVirus|\
Undeliverable: test|\
VIRUS \(.*\) IN MAIL FROM YOU|\
VIRUS \(.*\) IN MAIL TO YOU|\
VIRUS IN YOUR MAIL|\
Virus Detected by Network Assoc|\
Virus Notification|\
Virus found in a message you sent|\
Virus found in sent message\
)
$TRASH


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