Slient Virus

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Mar 29 17:17:01 IST 2004


At 16:56 29/03/2004, you wrote:
>>Check the settings of
>>
>>Notify Senders =
>>Notify Senders Of Viruses =
>>Notify Senders Of Blocked Filenames Or Filetypes =
>>Notify Senders Of Other Blocked Content =
>>
>>as they also affect what the senders get.
>>
>>Sorry the sender notification settings seem a little complicated, I need to
>>balance the need to maintain backward compatibility with fine-grained
>>control, while still enforcing things like stopping everyone warning
>>senders about viruses by default.
>
>Hello,
>
>I have set the:
>
>Notify Senders = yes
>Notify Senders Of Viruses = no
>Notify Senders Of Blocked Filenames Or Filetypes = yes
>Notify Senders Of Other Blocked Content = no
>
>and still, no warning sent to the original sender.  Only the recipient
>gets the warning.

Set the last one to "yes".

>   What is worse, if the mail is actually a Bagle-zippwd
>(for which we do not want the "recipient" to be warned since it actually
>is not intended), the recipient will receive the email, minus the virus
>attachment.

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