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

Thu Aug 21 14:43:23 UTC 2003

I attest to Amavis on this one.  Message headers, virus found, and also if 
you quarentine the message it sends the quarentined file name. 

Gerardo 

Joe Maimon writes: 

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> 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: 
>>> 
>>> 	1) Take their computer to a computer store and pay for needless 
>>> 'repairs',
>>> or 
>>> 
>>> 	2) Reinstall/reformat rather than take chances.
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>> 	3)Call up their Geeky son and panic...
>> <rant>
>> 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. 
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