To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?
John Ferriby
john at ferriby.com
Wed Aug 20 14:32:24 UTC 2003
> 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 at 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
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