I don't see any value in telling the recipient either. I was more looking at the sender and delivering some type of notification to them. Thanks for the response.
Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Len Conrad Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 7:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Virus Stuff! >This daily battle of the virus is taking more and more of my time. hmmm, we use imgate and imgateAV and we don' spend ANY TIME on it. :)) >Is anyone following up on these things? I mean has anyone written a script >that sends a warning back to the sender and lets them know they have the >virus? Or do we simply delete the warnings and go on from there. I wonder >if it would do any good? we notify the sender and our sysadmin, but we don't notify the recipient, since what recipient(s) want to receive 10's or 100's of infection notices during worm storm like nimda or I_LOVE_YOU ? The infected msg's are bogus, and the recipient notifications are uselesss and annoying. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
