From: Tom Knight (thomas.knightahds.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 11 2004 - 05:16:14 CST

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Gill [mailto:brry.co.za]
> Sent: 11 March 2004 07:40
> To: suse-securitysuse.com
> Subject: [suse-security] Anti-Virus reports
>
>
> Hello All.
>
> As most of you are technical, you should for the most part be in
> control of,
> or have the ear of the person who is in control of your corporate
> anti-virus
> solutions.

I don't agree with this bit, but...

>
> Please for the sake of the internet can you STOP your servers
> sending virus
> notifications to the originators of the message as with today's
> modern virii
> 90% of virii use spoofed "from:" addresses.

<snip not unjustified rant>

Here I agree totally and wholeheartedly. This really pisses me
off, big time, if only because it confuses the hell out of the
people I support. I normally send emails to the sysadmin of the
site explaining the problem, and if I get no response from them
(I do ask for one, just to make sure my message is read by a
human, not just piped through to an unread mailbox), I try to
contact the management, suggesting they retrain or dump their
sysadmins. Petty, but _I_ enjoy it!

Tom.

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