[csw-users] FW: confirm 92bbf955aafb28a7f72a9e6887317b9f905f62f2

[Robert Stampfli]

My guess is that Symantec is not being silent about quarantining
the virus, but rather is rejecting it outright.  This may seem
like the preferred action -- it's certainly satisfying --  but
it rarely has the desired outcome:  Since the address is almost
always forged, the rejected message typically bounces around,
eventually winding up in some mail admin's mailbox, causing
additional headache.  But, if the mail comes from a mailing
list, *it* gets the reject message back and the automated list
handling software just sees that the message is rejected and
treats it the same as if it got a reject due to a non-existent
account.  A better strategy for handling viruses is to silently
accept them just like everything is hunky-dory and then quietly
quarantine them locally.

Rob

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:23:16PM -0500, Luke Youngblood wrote:
> I got the MyDoom virus that you were talking about (I don't mean I got
> infected...  Symantec quarantined it and caught it instantly), but I also
> got this message shortly after.  Anyone else getting this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Luke
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