Re: Latest Worm - Why such a flood?

From: Barry Margolin (barry.margolin_at_level3.com)
Date: 09/30/03

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    In article <3f7948b5$0$58707$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
    Casper H.S. *** <Casper.***@Sun.COM> wrote:
    >Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com> writes:
    >
    >>The sender and/or recipient of a legitimate email that is mistakenly
    >>blocked by the ISP. False positives are probably the biggest worry of
    >>third-party spam/virus filtering.
    >
    >
    >Perhaps so for spam, rather unlikely for viruses. (Except for those
    >stupid filters that check for just "begin 644 ilovu.txt")

    That's the problem. I have no doubt that some ISPs would implement some
    really simple filters. Like blocking all executable attachments -- this
    would certainly stop lots of viruses, but some people do legitimately mail
    applications to each other. 

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Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com
Level(3), Woburn, MA
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