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

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Message-ID: <20030828151657.GA30934@arobas.net>
From: vladimir at arobas.net (Vladimir Parkhaev)
Subject: AV "feature" does more DDoS than Sobig

Quoting William Warren (hescominsoon@...lphia.net):
> this is the very reason i block all executables at my firewall...plus it 
> reduces the load on my workstations from having to scan all that 
> garbage..<G>

firewall? the best place to block IMHO will be on mail gateways
( you can bounce it with a nice message like 'atttachements of this
type are not welcome here' )....