On Thursday, March 20, 2003 at 20:42:21GMT +0100 (which was 2:42 PM where I live)
  Jernej Simončič wrote and made these points on the subject of "Nod32 + Filtering + 
Return Email":
JS> 20. marec 2003, 20:30:16, you wrote:

DC>> What I want to do is to copy that entire block (no matter what the
DC>> version & DB information in it is) to a form reply and mail back to them
DC>> with the name of the attachment included in the text body someplace.

JS> Don't do that! Most of modern viruses fake the From address, and you're not
JS> helping anybody by replying to these messages. Klez found it's way to
JS> yahoogroups mailing lists twice with my address in the From header, both
JS> times I was flooded with "You have a virus!" messages (197 messages the
JS> first time, too many to count the second time). Needless to say, the virus
JS> did not originate from my computer.

 Okay, how about something slightly better then.  A template that I can
use to manually reply to people I know that sent me a virus instead of
having it auto send?

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David
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