> Yeah... Klez is a real serious pain...
>
> It will randomly grab email addresses  from an infected person's
> addressbook, OR it will grab email addresses from ANY file on ANY
> drive it has access to. It then will use these random addresses
> for the TO: field, and for the FROM field both in the envelope
> sender, as well as the FROM: in the message itself. This
> 'spoofing' of the SMTP envelope makes KLEZ a MAJOR pain in the butt.
>
> Because of this, I had to disable the sender notification of
> qmail-scanner since it was telling people they had sent an
> infected email and they infact had not ever even sent us a message.
>
> Yesterday alone, qmail-scanner/Kaspersky on my email scanner
> stopped 196 inbound KLEZ infected emails.
>
> When will people stop using outlook? Sigh.... :(


Thanks for the info.  As I suspected its time to turn off notifications to
senders.

Ed.


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