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

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Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0308281227320.4058-100000@tundra.winternet.com>
From: dufresne at winternet.com (Ron DuFresne)
Subject: AV "feature" does more DDoS than Sobig

	[SNIP]

>
> 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.
>

form of SPAM perhaps, another viri form perhaps also, at least a by
product of the original virus/trojan.  Perhaps the best way to deal with
these, since most everyone contacted, the originator and the AV vendor,
are bit-bucketing all the e-mail responses to them, is to just promail
filter then to /dev/null.  else, you become part of the perpetual
'SPAM/viri-by-product" problem, wasting and consuming bandwidth

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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