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Re: Norton AntiVirus detected a virus in a message you sent. The inf ected attachment was deleted.



On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, NAV for Microsoft Exchange-SANGOKU wrote:

> Recipient of the infected attachment:<DELETED>
> Subject of the message:new photos from my party!
> One or more attachments were deleted
> Attachment www.myparty.yahoo.com was Deleted for the following reasons:
>   Virus W32.Myparty@mm was found.
>

Am I the only one annoyed by such messages? What should I recieve them?

Anyway, it appears to me that this behaviour of a mail server could be
used for attacking the mail server: sending it an infected message with
many recepients, and let it send bounces to all of those dummy recipients.

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