On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Mitch (WebCob) wrote:
> We are sending this notification as a public service. Please contact
> your computer support person or visit one of the many PC Antivirus
> providers. Many have free solutions to your problem.

That does sound reasonable to me.  I wonder if there isn't a technical
reason why this might be a Bad Idea, though.  For example, it used to be
courteous to send an e-mail to a sender to let them know their computer
was infected, but now trying to do things like that is a nuisance because
it's highly unlikely that you're actually going to be contacting the
original sender.

Popping up a message on the machine with the proper IP number of the
source of the infection sounds useful at best and harmless at worst...but
is it really harmless?  Could these popups interrupt running processes on
poorly configured servers and such?

Jeffrey Moskot
System Administrator
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