antivirus smurfing

[John Galt <galt () INCONNU ISU EDU>]

I've noticed that the email trojan explosion as of late is spawning
another type of explosion: antivirus bots that have no real purpose except
to advertise that somesuch company's antivirus must be good, since it
caught this one.  It seems that one message can lead to a cascade of
dozens of messages to all who received the virus.  Throw in to this mix
the fact that it's trivial to set up an email alias to a large group of
lists and make one of those targets a simple .vacation account that
resends a copy of the trojan, and all of a sudden we have a feedback loop
from hell.  Is there something here I'm missing?

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