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Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?
From: Daniel Senie <dts () senie com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:36:55 -0400
Notifications from virus scanners is backscatter, just the same as the backscatter generated by Smurf attacks. The virus scanners are contributory technology in the conduct of a denial of service attack in exactly the same way as having directed broadcasts enabled on your routers was (read RFC 2644 for the details).
Please let's stop building technology that aids in the conduct of DoS attacks.
Current thread:
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications?, (continued)
- 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)
- 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)
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Mark Segal (Aug 20)
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Tomas Daniska (Aug 20)
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Damian Gerow (Aug 20)
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Brandon Butterworth (Aug 20)
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notifications? Wesley Vaux (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? Claire Kelly (Aug 20)