On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 09:43:21AM +0800, Reynald I. Ngo wrote:
> I have to disagree the term "broken". The mail virus scanner just
> captures the FROM address and has no way of intelligently knowing who
> the real sender is. Its doing what its been told to do so. {=)
Recent versions of AMaViS use some algorithm to decide whether
notifications to the sender should be sent in response to a virus or
not. I do not know how accurate it is but messages from Klez with
spoofed From headers don't get replied to by my system, and yet messages
with Magistr for example get replied to with notification, and indeed
their senders are pretty much themselves. Granted, of course, that I
have never decided to plung into the source code to figure out how
accurate this algorithm works.
--> Jijo
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