On 26 Aug 2003, Bret Hughes wrote: > well I learned something today that I am embarrassed to admit.my > mailscanner setup was sending replies to all the friggin Sobig mails > that got caught be f-prot since I had not added Sobig to the Silent > Viruses list in MailScanner.conf > > I have peaked at the logs over the last few days but it did not dawn on > me that I was contributing to the flood of messages related to this > scourge. > > Those of you running Mailscanner might want to check this if you have > not already. I would not have seen this if the worm had not used my > address as both the sender and the recipent. Sort of rfreaked me out > when I got the mail message from my own server that I had sent a virus > (from evolution?) > > Bret
I personally would like the notify sender to be removed from all the scanner programs. I don't believe it adds any value at all and often causes problems. -- Gerry "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
