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Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless anti-virus )

  • From: Micheal Patterson
  • Date: Fri Dec 09 13:42:11 2005




----- Original Message ----- From: "Geo." <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 10:59 AM
Subject: RE: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless anti-virus )




It doesn't matter what the notifications look like.  There is no reason



that

my SMTP server should be subject to more than TEN THOUSAND of these damned

things every day, <<



I hear you but you and I both know AV companies are not going to give up
the

automated spamming feature that easily. A standard message beginning they

might be willing to impliment in a relatively short time and AV software
is

constantly updated so this could make a difference and happen relatively

quickly.



As for the quantity you receive, its nothing compared to the amount of
spam

those infected machines are soon going to be generating.



George Roettger

Netlink Services





They may not a choice if those that are being hammered with their
auto-generated DSN's deem it unusually high traffic rate and simply black
list the domains using these devices. AOL.com comes to mind and a few others
in the recent weeks that are hammering me with notifications that weren't
sent by anyone within my network.



That's the problem that I'm looking at George, the amount of traffic that
those systems will be generating in the future. Including the bogus DSN's
that are a direct result of that initial burst traffic.



Mike P.