Re: Virus incident

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

Craig Dickson <crdic@yahoo.com> writes:

> My guess is that the antivirus thing thinks it's processing mail that is
> addressed to one of its local users. So it assumes the To: line is one of
> those local users, and sends the notice to that address. Which is sort of
> stupid.

I doubt it.  I'm sure the authors think this is a public service, and
everyone who got the original virus mail should be notified that
they've received a virus.

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