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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: other virus damages/costs.....(hello skynet.be ?)
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Mike Tancsa wrote: > Looking at my disk stats, my mail storage spool has grown by 15% in the > past week not due the deluge of viruses which I can block and reject, but > in large part to those idiotic "Hi, I am sorry in a happy idiotic way to > inform you that the message you sent has a virus" messages.... As almost > all of them forge their email address, what is the point of warning the > "sender." Even better, I wake up this am to 285 (and growing) messages > below telling me that someone at skynet is trying to send me a virus > message and it cc's 64 other people. Nice. Enough people are sufficiently annoyed by antivirus notifications/advertisements that they're starting to ask for DNSBLs of systems that send them. I suspect before long, there will be some. But this really doesn't seem to be NANOG material. Try spam-l or spamtools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *[email protected]*| I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________
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