Notifications from virus scanners is backscatter, just the same as the backscatter generated by Smurf attacks. The virus scanners are contributory technology in the conduct of a denial of service attack in exactly the same way as having directed broadcasts enabled on your routers was (read RFC 2644 for the details).
Please let's stop building technology that aids in the conduct of DoS attacks.
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notificati... Pascal Gloor
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notificati... Stephen J. Wilcox
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notificati... John Ferriby
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notificati... Matthew Kaufman
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notificati... Valdis . Kletnieks
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notificati... D'Arcy J.M. Cain
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notif... Gerardo A. Gregory
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notif... Leo Bicknell
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' n... Leo Bicknell
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notificati... Joe Maimon
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notif... Daniel Senie
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notificati... Eric A. Hall
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notificati... Gregory Hicks
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notificati... Jim Deleskie
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notificati... Mark Segal
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notificati... Tomas Daniska
- Re: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notif... Damian Gerow
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notificati... Brandon Butterworth
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notificati... Wesley Vaux
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notif... Stephen J. Wilcox
- RE: To send or not to send 'virus in email' notificati... Claire Kelly
