[Mimedefang] Best method of dealing with automatic - propagation virus mails

Roberto Machado racm at centroin.com.br
Mon Oct 28 14:02:00 EST 2002


On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 jmiller at purifieddata.net wrote:

> > 	- bounce at smtp level
>
> This might be ok on viruses known NOT to forge the from address.
> However, klez, bugbear, yaha, magistr, and others forge the from
> address randomly from the address books they pull off the infected
> machine. This means your bounces could be propogating the virus.

 Is there people who don't set "nobodyreturn" in the Privacy Flags (I
 assume everyone in this list is talking about sendmail realm).

Regards, Roberto





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