On Oct 4, 2004, at 3:55 PM, David Dudine wrote:
I have been receiving many notices that a virus, which is apparently named
"Unknown Virus", has been sent to me, and that the message has been
quarantined by [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not sent to me. OK. Too many Windoze
correspondents on my list.--
For well over two years all new viruses on the PC have been forging the 'From:' headers from addresses found on the infected PC's outlook address book or in the web cache.
This means all of these notifications that AV software send are just so much more 'virus' traffic. They should be turned off by competent sysadmins, and, in fact should be off by default with competent AV software.
Alas, far too many sysadmins and AV companies are clueless nimrods, and they leave this stuff turned on.
The Declude (perhaps we should call it Declueless :-) software doesn't actually know what it blocked, only that it blocked it, hence the 'Unknown' designation.
Looking at the Declude web page, it is a AV 'preprocessor' that looks for specific mail client or server exploit code in the mail rather than the actual viruses themselves.
It really smells rather snake-oily to me, particularly when I read that they have an 'Affiliate' program...(when you have a good product, you don't need to recruit random strangers to sell it for you)
-- Bruce Johnson
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