OT: "OMG YOU SENT TEH VIRUSESS"

[Dhawal Doshy]

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Jason Balicki wrote:
> Martin Hepworth <> wrote:
> 
>>a good SA rule for this is Tim Jackson's bogus virus warnings set.
>>
>>http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/bogus-virus-warnings.cf
> 
> 
> Martin,
> 
> I appreciate this, but I was more concerned with
> getting the offending parties to stop wasting
> network resources than I am with tagging the messages.
> 
> If nobody else is interested in this, that's fine --
> I was just trying to provide a friendly community
> service for these folks before they get themselves
> blacklisted.
> 

Jason,

This is simply not in your / our control, this is all about awareness on 
howto properly configure a mailserver

The best one can do is to have an automated system where you send a mail 
to the abuse / postmaster of the problematic domain AND possibly block 
them using a local rbl (for repeat offenders). If their outgoing mails 
to your domain are important they'll change soon enough.

Also if you / someone can write up and link about some best-practices 
for mailservers in such a situation, i'll personally spam the link to 
all mailadmins that i know of ;-)

- dhawal

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