Email Signatures

[Matt Morgan]

On 07/20/2004 10:27 AM, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Di, den 20.07.2004 schrieb ne... um 16:14:
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>>>I've just got a bounce with the following subject.
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>>>                          Subject: 
>>>Symantec Mail Security detected that
>>>you sent a message containing a
>>>suspicious attachment.
>>>(SYM:02629890341371604646)
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>>I suspect that this is a virus that was sent from someone
>>who had your e-mail address in their addressbook. That's
>>the in thing these for viruses and worms...
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>>N.Emile...
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>That is quite right. I too get such bounces from time to time. I
>remember this crap Symantec Mail Security shit - silently hope it could
>be configured to not bounce to innocent victims of sender faking worms.
>There are still a lot of systems around in the world where the
>responsible administrators left to see that nowadays bouncing incoming
>mail they discover as having virus/worm freight shouldn't be bounced.
>Reject the mail with a valid DSN during DATA phase but not later after
>acceptance and then bouncing to who seems to be the sender.
>
>Alexander
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Simple solution: just don't bounce virus-infected messages. They're ALL 
using forged headers. Delete them and forget about it.

This drives me crazy--we are so careful and clean when it comes to 
antivirus--we never get infected (knock on wood)--but every day I have a 
user panic over one of these bogus bounces. I spend as much time 
explaining these confusing messages as I spend preventing virus/worm 
infection. What absolutely enrages me is when they also contain an 
advertisement and a link the AV company.