W32/Sobig.F virus header

[David Sullivan]

On 21 Aug 2003 at 12:16, John Rudd wrote:
> I will admit that the quote above has me making a rather extreme
> statement, but it was intended to be as extreme as the person I was
> replying to (about the people who are blocking the default header are
> "idiots" ... my first response was to say "anyone who is using the
> default header is similarly an idiot", but I decided to be a little
> more polite than that).
Were you?

I didn't say that. A demonstration of how little some value recieving mail by applying
blocking and filtering solutions as subtle as a half brick.


>
> Let me turn the question back to you: what are good reasons for using
> X-MailScanner instead of using a locally customized header?
>
> I can think of lots of good reaons to use your own, I can't think of
> any good reasons to stick to the default.  The only reason I can think
> of for why you'd want to use the default is laziness.  And lazy
> sysadmins are a liability to us all (because lazy sysadmins tend to
> have machines which don't keep up with vulnerability fixes and such).
> Thus, my statement that such systems deserve to be blocked.

I'm sure organisations that are concerned about the consequences of running a mail
scanning system applaud such a philosophy.

David.
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