Silent virus and filename check

[Gerry Doris]

> On Tuesday 26 August 2003 7:50 am, Peter Peters wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just received a warning about a alledged Sobig infection on my system
>> from somebody using MailScanner. Their MS triggered on the virusscanner
>> seeing Sobig and MS itself detected the .pif extension.
>>
>> I wondered what happens when this occurs and Sobig is listed as silent
>> virus. Does that prevail over tellling the sender his .pif did not get
>> through or do filename checks allways produce a warning to the sender?
>
> If Sobig had been listed as a silent virus then their machine would not
> have
> sent the "bounce" to you (because you didn't send them the virus in the
> first
> place).   The filename check is subordinate to the virus check.
>
> If you know who the mail administrator for that site is, or if the mail
> you've received contains any contact details regading the message from
> MailScanner, you might want to ask them to add "Sobig" to the "Silent
> Virus"
> list, and that will cut down a lot of useless traffic leaving their site
> (and
> probably queueing up in their outbound queue because of delivery problems
> as
> well).
>
> Antony,
>

With all the stupid responses being sent (especially to lists) I really
wish the "feature" to notify senders was removed altogether from
MailScanner.  It's turned out to do nothing but add more spam to our
lives.

Gerry