On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 00:00:02 +0000, Automatic digest processor wrote: > Anyone who believes they got infected e-mail from me is invited to tell > *me* and not the world in general ... and, if possible, they should > forward full headers at least, or the message in zipped format password > protected so it can get past the Amavis virus firewall.
I agree it is certainly the polite thing to do to try to inform the apparent sender privately rather than to announce his problem to the whole world. In the case of some viruses the sender just doesn't get the word. Some viruses are so nasty that they automatically set up the infected machine to send an auto-reply containing another copy of the virus to the people who are just merely trying to inform him that his machine is infected. We have seen this happen on some of the lists we subscribe to. In these cases we have had to report the infected machine to the virus sender's ISP. If the virus senders can't even get the word by private email that their machines are infected, the only way we can help them is to report them to their respective ISPs. I know this is very distressing and embarassing to the unfortunate person whose machine is infected, but how else was the person going to be able to find out about his problem? I can very well understand how your case is especially annoying to you because I know you were falsely accused, although not with malicious intent. The person who accused you did not know that the "From:" address had been forged. How was he to suspect that Micro$oft $oftware is so incredibly defective that it even allows virri to forge the "From:" addresses on outgoing emails without the operator's even being aware of it? The mere fact that Micro$oft $oftware can send any emails at all without the operator's knowledge ought to be considered reason enough to outlaw the possession of such software and to sue the manufacturer into bankruptcy in order to rid the internet of this most evil scourge. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
