Clueless anti-virus products/vendors (was Re: Sober)

Tue Dec 6 02:40:09 UTC 2005

On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 17:38:00 PST, Douglas Otis said:

> pending the scan.  Another solution would be not returning message  
> content within a DSN.  This would mitigate the distribution of  
> viruses, as well as forged bounce-addresses sent to a backup MTAs as  
> a method for bypassing black-hole lists.  Would changing what is  
> returned within a DSN in all cases be a solution?

No. You're still sending a DSN to a destination that you know beforehand
is incorrect.
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