[Mimedefang] Spammers who won't take no for an answer

[Kelson Vibber]

At 06:48 PM 10/20/2003, Daniel Kasak wrote:
>What would be great is if you could integrate the excellent tool 'smbdie' 
>into mimedefang / canit, and blue-screen the computers of repeat offenders.

This reminds me of an idea I had a while back to use samba and Windows 
messaging to notify the senders of viruses (since you can do this with just 
the IP address, which is the only thing you really know reliably when 
someone sends you a virus).  I eventually decided it wouldn't actually 
reach enough of the senders to do much good, and would probably end up 
flooding any uninfected Exchange servers that were being used as relays by 
infected machines.

And after seeing some infected hosts try to send us a new copy of Sobig 
every 5 minutes - literally - it seems to me that such a system would have 
to be smart enough to limit the number of of notices it sends.  It's even 
harder to clean out your computer with a stack of 50 pop-up messages 
waiting for you to click OK.


Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>