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RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?
From: "Matthew Kaufman" <matthew () eeph com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 07:41:16 -0700
Absolutely not. SoBig.F, like many others, forges the sender address. That means that your notifications: 1) Don't make it back to the person with the infection 2) Simply add more clutter to the mailbox of the person whose address was used (in addition to all the bounce messages) In the enterprise, this is a great argument for scanning outbound email with positive identification of whose outbound mail you're scanning. Matthew Kaufman matthew () eeph com
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of Joe Maimon Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 7:25 AM To: nanog () merit edu Subject: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Considering the amount of email traffic generated by responding to forged virus laden email from culprits like sobig should email virus scanning systems be configured to send notifications back to sender or not?
Current thread:
- To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Joe Maimon (Aug 20)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Pascal Gloor (Aug 20)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Stephen J. Wilcox (Aug 20)
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? John Ferriby (Aug 20)
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Matthew Kaufman (Aug 20)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 20)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? D'Arcy J.M. Cain (Aug 20)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Gerardo A. Gregory (Aug 20)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Leo Bicknell (Aug 20)
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- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Leo Bicknell (Aug 20)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Joe Maimon (Aug 20)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Daniel Senie (Aug 20)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Eric A. Hall (Aug 20)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Gregory Hicks (Aug 20)
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Jim Deleskie (Aug 20)