Warning Senders

[Julian Field]

If you don't like Warn Senders, then turn it off :-)

At 04:35 20/08/2003, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I am sure you all have noticed a spike in the viruses intercepted by MS just
>today, thanks to Sobig and family. One of my Gateways hit a record high !!!
>
>This brings me to the next point, what is really the purpose of sending a
>warning the sender, if almost all the recent viruses are written to fake the
>sender? Just today, our site received thousands of "Warning" messages
>informing
>them that the message they sent was infected. Of course the warning came
>to the
>wrong sender, and it created a confusion and chaos on our site. How do you
>explain to a normal user that the virus has a built-in engine ... etc.
>I think this is irresponsible on the admin part, because all we're doing is
>helping the virus-writers to scare users off even more.
>
>It struck me how many of those sites were using MS, some running older
>versions
>of MS and seemed to have done little research on what is it they are trying to
>accomplish by notifying the wrong sender.
>
>"Notify Sender" has its use, but it seems that it's been misused.
>
>Sorry folks, I just had to let it out of my chest after answering gazillion
>phone calls and writing users back million times to ignore those messages.
>
>
>Thanks for listening
>Marco
>
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