On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:55, Adam McKenna wrote: > > My own inbox supports this statement. 140 responses to Sobig.F mails, > > of which 43 are virus or other content-based autoresponders, and 97 > > being delivery failure messages or other autoresponders (e.g.: ISP help > > desk). > > How many were challenges from mailing list software? Yes, another class of > software that automatically issues challenges (specifically, to new > subscriptions and to non-list members if the list is closed). So I guess > you should also file bugs against majordomo, mailman, ezmlm-src, and any > other mailing list managers that do this.
The comparison to mailing list software makes no sense. I am prepared to put up with majordomo or mailman responses to virus messages because it's for the greater good. Having a single unwanted message go to me is much better than having that message being sent out to each of the 10,000 people on a big mailing list! For challenge-response systems it's totally different. I don't want to receive a single message because a lazy asshole wants to push all his problems on other people. People who take the attitude of "Sobig wasn't a problem, my machine just sent out 4000 challenge messages to random victims" can only be described as lazy assholes. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page