Le jeu 28/08/2003 à 10:03, Adam McKenna a écrit : > > In which way would have TMDA avoided sending a challenge to the > > header-from: of a sobig.f instance? > > TMDA doesn't send challenges to From: addresses, it sends them to the > envelope sender (Return-Path) address. Nice, but sobig.f also forges the return-path. > Also, I don't have any hard data to support this, but it's obvious to me > that the volume of mail generated by virus scanners in response to Sobig.f > eclipses the volume of TMDA challenges by at least a factor of 10. So far, > I haven't received *one* TMDA challenge that was due to Sobig, but I've > received *hundreds* of messages from virus scanners all over the net. > > So, I guess we should add virus scanners to the list of verboten software. Why not? They are nothing but an annoyance for all users of non-MS systems. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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