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[Mr. Greyhair]

It is mentioned on the mailscanner website that "MailScanner knows
about a list of viruses that" ... "fake "From" address". "... up to
system administrators to keep this list up to date." How does one
maintain this list (correctly)?

>From http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/sobig.html:
<snip>
   Why am I getting all this mail from you?
   First of all, the mail is not coming from us. Please read on...

   This virus sends e-mail messages with a fake "From" address, which might
   happen to be your address. MailScanner knows about a list of viruses that
   do this, and knows not to respond to the sender if the message contains any
   of these "faking" viruses. However, it is currently up to the individual
   system administrators to keep this list up to date. If they haven't
   added "Sobig" to the list, then their MailScanner will continue to issue
   warnings to the senders, not knowing that they are fake.
</snip>

Thanks.