Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses
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Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:
>
> Well, once spamassassin learns the viruses, it'll detect it as spam.
> This is extremely desirable: It gives you the opportunity to go romp
> through headers and report them to the originating ISPs.
> Idiot-hostile ISPs like NTL, dsl-only, and xprt.net (rightfully)
> terminate customer contracts for such activity.
And you verify the originating ISP how? Virus's have a slight tendency
to forge headers. I've got spam from my address - I didn't send it, I
don't think this virus has sent me anything as addressed to me from me,
but I still wouldn't count on the headers being authentic.
Michael C.
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