To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?

Wed Aug 20 14:41:16 UTC 2003

Absolutely not.

SoBig.F, like many others, forges the sender address. That means that your
notifications:
  1) Don't make it back to the person with the infection
  2) Simply add more clutter to the mailbox of the person whose address was
used (in addition to all the bounce messages)

In the enterprise, this is a great argument for scanning outbound email with
positive identification of whose outbound mail you're scanning.

Matthew Kaufman
matthew at eeph.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On 
> Behalf Of Joe Maimon
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 7:25 AM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?
> 
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> 
> 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?
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