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From: Jos at meltemi.co.uk (Jos Osborne)
Subject: antivirus s/w

>PLEASE MAKE SURE that it doesn't send email responses.
>
>I'm getting 500 mydoom an hour.  I can filter those.
>I'm getting 1500 AV-responses an hour.  I can't filter those.
>
>AV response email is PART OF THE PROBLEM now, not PART OF THE SOLUTION.

Especially with virii spoofing the "From" field now. It just ends up with somebody at random getting the response, which is likely to cause more confusion.

Jos