On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 05:14:46PM -0600,
Steve Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> When I sent my analysis of the "iloveyou" virus to BugTraq, I was
> deluged with email - all of them bounces. Because my message started with
> "ilove you", many, many mail servers had blocked it. That was within
> something like 12 hours of the release. Think of the immense amount of
> headaches the system administrators for those companies saved themselves.
> The ounce of prevention was worth a metric ton of cure.
That is supposed to be an example of good effects of virus scanning?
Subject based scanning is bad. You get a lot of false positives and well
written viruses will choose from a large set of common subjects to make
subject blocking costly.
