Re: OT: viruses after the downtime?
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 30, 2004, 15:15 |
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:28:24AM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
[snip]
> 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
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