Re: lots of sobig virus emails.
From: Kee Hinckley (nazgul_at_somewhere.com)
Date: 08/20/03
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 00:38:25 -0400 To: "wirepair" <wirepair@roguemail.net>
At 9:44 AM -0700 8/19/03, wirepair wrote:
>heh anyone else seeing this or am i being targeted. Getting a lot of
>bounce backs saying i'm sending off virii which is impossible
>because i'm not infected. It also looks like i'm getting a ton from
>'security peoples' email
Join the club. My account and lots of other accounts at
somewhere.com are getting innundated. I'm getting far more "you sent
a virus" warnings than the viruses themselves. Which is completely
irresponsible on the part of the anti-virus vendors. They know this
virus forges the from address, they shouldn't be sending mail to the
from address. Never mind the ones that send mail to postmaster of
the domain as well as the "user". The fact that most of these
"helpful" messages read far more like an advertisement for the
anti-virus software than anything truly helpful, makes me wonder
whether the companies aren't deliberately avoiding fixing this
misfeature.
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