| -----Original Message-----
| From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
| [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of 
| Sheldon Koehler
| Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 11:26 AM
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Virus Stuff!
| 
| 
| > I don't see any value in telling the recipient either.  I was more 
| > looking at the sender and delivering some type of notification to 
| > them.  Thanks
| for
| > the response.
| 
| We notify the intended recipient as well as the sender of the 
| virus (Declude AV does this automatically for us!) mostly for 
| advertising. We have made new customers this way and our 
| regulars thank us for watching out for them.

This is part of our reasoning, but in line with that... The recipient is
often in a position to notify the sender that they have trouble -
usually a business associate of some kind. The opportunity for them to
watch out for eachother is also good for them - and we like to
facilitiate that. Often the person sending out the virus has no idea
they've been infected - so this kind of rapid response is a good thing -
the theory has proved itself out again just today.

_M


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