on Fri, Nov 22, 2002, Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 06:49:13PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> > Colin Watson writes:
> > > They are of no significance. Viruses frequently forge the source address
> > > of e-mails, and it's not uncommon for lists to be those forged addresses.
> >
> > It's irritating that the incompetent bunglers that manage these so-called
> > "virus scanners" allow them to send out these notices, though.
>
> It doesn't help that Klez and kin typically forge the envelope sender,
> thus meaning that even correct systems end up appearing like incompetent
> bunglers.
There are list headers which can be tested for to avoid sending AV
alerts to lists. qmail-scanner, for one, does this (I haven't worked
with others).
I keep a list of AV vendor email addresses handy which I forward all of
such misdirected list mails to. Figuring that if enough people do this,
the AV vendors will take pains that their customers set the products up
right.
Peace.
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