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



Am Montag, 28. Januar 2002 19:19 schrieb Tzafrir Cohen:
> 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.

Well, all those were Windows users. If we would block email adresses that contains maileragent Outlook or similar, we would reduce the spam... ;-)

Well, now serious. We should not allow any message from a "dynamic" IP. There are a several blacklists out there.

Johnny



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