other virus damages/costs.....(hello skynet.be ?)
jlewis at lewis.org
jlewis at lewis.org
Mon Feb 2 13:42:53 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> Looking at my disk stats, my mail storage spool has grown by 15% in the
> past week not due the deluge of viruses which I can block and reject, but
> in large part to those idiotic "Hi, I am sorry in a happy idiotic way to
> inform you that the message you sent has a virus" messages.... As almost
> all of them forge their email address, what is the point of warning the
> "sender." Even better, I wake up this am to 285 (and growing) messages
> below telling me that someone at skynet is trying to send me a virus
> message and it cc's 64 other people. Nice.
Enough people are sufficiently annoyed by antivirus
notifications/advertisements that they're starting to ask for DNSBLs of
systems that send them. I suspect before long, there will be some.
But this really doesn't seem to be NANOG material. Try spam-l or
spamtools.
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