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Re: OT: viruses after the downtime?

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Friday, January 30, 2004, 15:15
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:28:24AM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
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> Peter Bleackley scripsit: > > > The Mydoom virus seems to like disguising itself as bounce messages. It > > then claims for some spurious reason that the mailserver can't send your > > original message as plain text and that it has to send it as an > > attachment. > > In addition, it generates perfectly legitimate bounce-o-grams from systems > that see it as a virus and try to warn the infected sender. Unfortunately, > the sender's name is forged, so the wrong person gets the warning. This > is happening to me constantly, and my mail never even touches Windows, > so I know I'm not infected.
[snip] IMNSHO, bouncing mail in this manner (sending a reply to the From: or Reply-To: address instead of generating an error at the SMTP session level) is a waste of Internet bandwidth. Most things that causes these bounces (spam, viruses) come with fake From: and Reply-To: addresses anyway, so most of the time, these warnings get to the wrong person and generate unnecessary Net traffic. T -- Real Programmers use "cat > a.out".