Thread: Virus E-Mails.
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Old 08-19-2003, 03:09 PM  
rowan
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This is getting way out of hand. As well as getting flooded with a stack of Windows virus ridden attachments directly (which I'm immune to since I read my mail under unix), I'm also seeing a lot of virus bounce errors from one particular mailing list that I am subscribed to. I think it's being used as a source address for a lot of the emails. The biggies like ibm.com must be having a huge problem with their mail services at the moment, handling all of the rejects that served based virus scanners are sending back to them.

(why the fuck does a virus scanner send back an email to the SOURCE address when it's KNOWN that the virus falsifies this field, and the source address is actually completely innocent?!?)
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