With the current virii usually forging the from field with random
addresses from its victim's address book, I turned off my virus
scanner's warning to the senders . . I only send a polite note to the
intended recipient.
Responding to virii, or warning users that they are infected is a waste
of time.
'course, I probably get 25 e-mails a day telling me that I sent someone
Sobig, which would be pretty impressive, since I run Suse :)
-Dave
On Friday, 29 Aug 2003, Dean Anderson wrote:
> The from address is typically forged, but seems to be frequently be real
> addresses.
>
> I've been getting quite a large number of virus disinfection replies to
> various addresses that come to me. (Quite odd, too, since some of the
> addresses being used haven't been used for 10 years, but are still
> forwarding mail to my real addresses...)
>
> --Dean
>
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Fam. van den Berg wrote:
>
> >
> > All,
> >
> > Today I recieved 2 mails with the following subjects:
> >
> > Wicked screensaver
> > Thank you!
> >
> > The sender was owner@ietf.org, according to the header.
> >
> > This may indicate that this ietf mailinglist is infected with the sobig
> > f virus.
> > I recommend that all the participiants on this list update their
> > virusscanner and scan their computer for viruses.
> >
> > With kind regards,
> >
> > A. van den Berg, Netherlands
> >
>
>
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David Frascone
Why do they tell us to watch "The Today Show" tomorrow?