full-disclosure - AV "feature" does more DDoS than Sobig

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From: madsaxon at direcway.com (madsaxon)
Subject: AV "feature" does more DDoS than Sobig

At 10:05 AM 8/28/03 -0300, Fabio Gomes de Souza wrote:

 > Anti-virus products are causing more harm than the Sobig Worm.

>The problem is that many e-mail virus scanners send a "You are infected" 
>reply to the address contained in the "From" header. Since the messages 
>are spoofed, the inoccent, uninfected user "A" is flooded by automatic 
>complaints from "C","D","E" regarding the virus that "B" sends.

I agree. Any sort of automated response based on perceived sender
IP address is not only brain-dead, but irresponsible. It does nothing
but compound the problem and needs to be curtailed.  Now.

m5x