John Clarke wrote:
My usual response is something like this sent to the postmaster at the
site which sent the virus notification:
> WARNING! Your message was infected by VIRUS: > Worm.SomeFool.Z
Well done. You bloody idiot.
I just want to accentuate this point. If you are a mail server administrator TURN OFF NOTIFICATION!
...and here's the "me too" follow-up :P
This problem with spoofed/faked senders being sent notifications cannot be emphasised heavily enough. The number of lobotomised amoebas out there who are "managing" (*cough*) mail servers is startling. Out of the 15,000-20,000 messages a day that go through the corporate gateway, about 70% is spam. Of that spam, 45-55% are "notices" to faked senders! Or roughly 1/3 of the mail volume, by message count, is crap from badly configured servers!
This whole thing has been a topic of concern on a number of SMTP/sendmail/etc mailing list and usenet groups I subscribe to. Glad it finally made a showing on SLUG. :)
--James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
