On Wednesday, September 22, 2004, at 03:48 AM, Greg Burkman wrote:
Oh, and "occasionally" I receive ugly e-mails with attachments from Windows
users who don't know they're sending the payloads along. I just delete those
messages, and I automatically send along a notice to them that they have a
problem they need to fix.
Actually all you're generally doing is annoying the wrong people, unless you're burrowing into the mail headers to find the originating system (and even then you don't know who to send it to, just the domain the infected system is in)
ALL PC email viruses for the last two years or more have forged the From: headers. They are never attached to legitimate e-mails, and they never go through the infected person's mail servers (they all contain their own micro smtp server)
At the height of the virus wars last March (when the sociopaths who made Sircam and Bagle were duelling it out, and releasing new versions every day or so) it was estimated that up to a third of the increased e-mail load worldwide was due to virus warnings sent to the wrong people, mostly by automated systems.
I was getting hundreds a week, and I don't even USE a PC.
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