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Re: [Users] Virus in Mailinglist

From: Michael H. Warfield (mhw_at_wittsend.com)
Date: Fri Apr 26 2002 - 19:48:35 CEST

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:24:20AM -0500, Nate Carlson wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, James Selph wrote:
> > The really funny thing is that every one of these auto responses is
> > coming from a windows machines... How much does the radio ad say
> > windows certified engineers are making now? Obviously not enough to
> > correct these types of problems ;^)

> Yup.. good 'ol Mimedefang (sendmail plugin) just sends the result back to
> the _person_ who sent the virus.. works much better. :)

        Really? That's a really cute trick considering that Klez.*,
amongst others, are forging the return addresses. How does it determine
who "the _person_ who sent the virus" was?

        I've been receiving stacks of virus notices about messages I
never sent to individuals I have never corresponded with. (Rumor has
it that Klez.H is using some sort of spam list to forge from addresses).

        Clue, people... The virus writers know about virus scanners
sending messages back to the return addresses. Great fun to annoy lots
of clueless lusers. Notices back to the source of the message should be
disabled on virus scanners. It's pointless anymore.

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