I vote for sending notifications to the sender only although the ability 
to not send based on the virus sounds interesting.  I don't know how 
you'd work it, but it would save the trouble of deleting those annoying 
bounce messages.

We used to get the latest greatest virus sent to us from an agency that 
lots of our users communicate with and I was sending notifications to 
everyone.  90% of my users thought they'd received a virus which made me 
look bad even though if they'd actually read the message they'd have 
known it was just a notification.  I stopped sending them to recipeints 
after that.  Since 99.99% of the attachments are generated by the virus 
these days it's useless to send the message through even after cleaning. 
  After the agency finally started scanning for viruses they also sent 
notifications to recipients.  The next time they got hit I wasted a 
whole day going around to each user and showing them that it was just a 
notication they'd received and NOT a virus.  Some of them still don't 
understand and believe that I let a virus through to them and only their 
rapid identification of the word "virus" in the subject line saved our 
network from sure destruction.  I sent a sternly worded message to the 
admin spelling out the trouble they'd caused me and it hasn't happened 
again (keeping my fingers crossed).

Dan

Steven Driscoll wrote:
> The company doesn't care if I ask a questions.  Getting feedback from others
> doing the same thing or having the same issues is what these lists are all
> about.  I am looking for feedback relating to setting up a policy of notify


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