On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:09:33AM -0800, Erick Lopez Carreon wrote: > If found a virus, then send mail to postmaster, sender > and receiver.
Don't do that. You generate unnecessary traffic, which is pointless and annoying in many situations. Most recent viruses and worms use a special technique of mangling source and destination addresses, and your warnings rarely reach the person who's computer is infected. If you have a reliable method of detection _which_ virus was found in a given e-mail, you may send a warning if it's one of the older viruses which don't spoof e-mail headers. In case of Klez and friends -- the only information you can be quite sure of is the IP address of the sending machine. If you want, you could send the warning to the owner/administrator of the particular network, but do it only once per IP (i.e. keep the database of your previous mailings). Marcin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
