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

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Message-ID: <001501c36d6c$20743c90$550ffea9@rms>
From: rms at computerbytesman.com (Richard M. Smith)
Subject: AV "feature" does more DDoS than Sobig

When I get one of these false alarm messages about Sobig, I am complaing
to both the company who sent the message and the vendor who supplies the
buggy software.  If an anti-virus software package knows that a
particular email virus uses forged return addresses, it shouldn't ever
send out a warning message about an infected email message.  If it does
send out a message in this situation, the message will almost surely go
to the wrong person.

Of course, these warning messages are also a form of spam since many of
them contain ads for the anti-virus software package that finds the
infected message.  

Richard M. Smith
http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com

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