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Re: Virus emails



On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 10:56:22AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
>     Actually, you wished more people did then we'd not have to deal with the
> worms and the bounces.  I just wish the virus scanners would just stop
> reporting them to known spoofed headers.

Which is not trivial. But if the Virus database would include a well
parseable "spoof Worm" flag, then the scanners could just stop replaying to
worms.

I am not sure if all of them have a "Worm." prefix in the name, and if there
is another way to see, if the worm will also spoof sender address.

Greetings
Bernd
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