[Mimedefang] Dropping e-mails generated by the Sobig Virus
Michael Sofka
sofkam at rpi.edu
Fri Aug 22 12:49:01 EDT 2003
I said:
> The problem with action_discard vis-a-vis Sobig.f, is that Sobig.f
> is often uses which then generate a delivery error in respose
> to the action_bounce. I've personally received hundreds of
> these in the past few days.
Which was horribly mangled. I meant to say, the virus often
uses an intermediary relay, which then generates an error
delivery message, which then goes to the wrong party.
Mike
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Michael D. Sofka sofkam at rpi.edu
C&CT Sr. Systems Programmer Email, TeX, epistemology.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/
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