Re: Virus Warning

Re: Virus Warning

[Russell King]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:54:37AM -0400, administrator@vt.edu wrote:
> The message you emailed to Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dated 09/03/03
> 05:54:37, contains the W32/Sobig-F virus in the thank_you.pif
> attachment. The action taken was: deleted the attachment.

Please note that I have no intention of trying to stop these bounces -
many of them are virtually impossible to reliably trap.

If they bother people, please complain to the originator - Sobig-F
is a virus which uses faked mail from addresses to spread, and as
such, MTAs should _not_ generate bounces for these types of viruses.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

Re: Virus Warning

[Bas Mevissen]

Russell King wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:54:37AM -0400, administrator@vt.edu wrote:
> 
>>The message you emailed to Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dated 09/03/03
>>05:54:37, contains the W32/Sobig-F virus in the thank_you.pif
>>attachment. The action taken was: deleted the attachment.
> 
> Please note that I have no intention of trying to stop these bounces -
> many of them are virtually impossible to reliably trap.
> 

Probably you can catch easely quite some of them, but people can do that 
for themselves too. So you are right not waisting your time on it.

Bas.