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Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.2.20030828083920.04e86110@pop3.direcway.com>
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
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