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

Thu Aug 21 13:25:58 UTC 2003

Patrick Muldoon wrote:

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>On Thursday 21 August 2003 12:08 am, David Schwartz wrote:
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>>	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:
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>>	1) Take their computer to a computer store and pay for needless 'repairs',
>>or
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>>	2) Reinstall/reformat rather than take chances.
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>	3)Call up their Geeky son and panic...
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>On this subject, my major pet peeve would be that at least 85% of the bounce 
>messages that I have seen coming back here, don't contain enough information 
>to figure out where the Original Message
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Amavis sends back in the notification message the original message's 
headers (plus more if you wish).
amavis-new has templates and such.

You would think other people who pay their developers nice sums of money 
could do the same.